AUCKLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3052, 7 April 1881, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

April 7. In the Supreme Court this morning Samuel BrovvD, an old settler and exmercbant, was arraigned on several charges of larceny and burglary. The

only evidence for the defence was the calling of witnesses as to character, which included the Hon. Mr. Whitaker, Hon. P. Dignan, and Mr J. M. Clark, the Mayor, who had known the prisoner for thirty and forty years. Judge Richmond said it was a very extraordinary case. He had known of similar cases of kleptomania, and it was a well-known fact in physiology that there were such forms of derangement. In the fact of such evidence of leading citizens he did not think it necessary to commit to gaol. The prisoner would be liberated in two bonds for £300 each, and these were entered into by Messrs David Nathan and Boylan Purcell, for forgery in connection with bis bankruptcy, was sentenced to two years imprisonmeut Warner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for larceny as a bailee, and Sutherland, for breaking and entering, received two years'. In the case of Bell, the station master of Ohaupo, for embezzlement, the counsel for the defence pleaded that the man had been drinking, and he was sentenced to three years'.