Wanganui Supreme Court

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 51, 17 October 1889, Page 3

Wanganui Supreme Court

tTuesda y, October J sth

(Before Hia Honor the. .Chief Justice Sir James Pre'adergast..) • His Honor addressing the Grand Jury said thei; number /of prisoners was rather^ more than 'usual, aud/ many of the offences were of a kiml that did not frequently occur. There were several charges, of 'felonies committedagainst ,_, young children, and come of these,: presented some difficulty on account of the ages of the children and the likelihood of their not knowing the nature of an path. / The laston the^lis.t %as that against Ashf orth, '" whicKE;^has'- bejen investigated before and as to which there be isome doubt as to whether there '^wa'f /any direction in writing, but if if Ui Veeined that at the time the money- was' in his hands as agent," although there was doiib't whether it was misapplied, it be better for them to find a bjii. ..Robert Stockwell Hassell, on two charges of forgeryj. pleaded, guilty. On the' application of the council the prisoner. . was. admitted on probation uuder the First Offendeis Probation Act, a Feilding settler named, Mr Elkington, ; entering into a bond of £50 for. him for six months. W. Baird fDrummond pleaded guilty to two charges of larceny, and was. sentenced to eight months hard labour both to run contemporaneously. Daniel Phillips pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a horse, saddle and bridle, and the case 1 occupied the Court till rising. In the case against C. H.? Aslforth, fbr converting the moneys of Stephen Carrick to his own use, he acting as agent, the prosecution fell through owing to "no indictment being, sent in. - It appears that Mr Jellicoe. refuesed at the last moment to attend the Court at Wanganui, so the prosecutor had no time to get other counsel. The prosecutor applied to the Bench for an adjournment of the case till the oext sittings of the Court, but his Honor said he could not do this, as it was the fault of the prosecutor's counsel. Later on hisdlonor told Carrick that he had sent in no indictment. He was legally liable to a penalty of £100 but under the circumstance of hia council being to blame, no doubt the Court would not press the penalty. The fact of Mr Jellicoe not appearing or presenting the indictment caused much surprise.

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Wanganui, October 10.

The Supreme Court resumed to-day at 10 a, in.* W. Whelan pleaded not guilty to a charge of abduction ; Pat Dillon, carnally knowing, and W. McDermott, rape, also pleaded not guilty. William McDermott's trial occupied the whole of the day, Mr Hogg appearing, for the defence. There was no evidence for the defence and the jury returned to Court after an absence of 15 minutes with a verdict of guilty". ■"Sentences was deferred till .to-mp,rrpw v Daniel Phillips, who i was fouu'd guilty yesterday of larceny as a bailee' of ahorse, etc., was to-day sentenced to 12 months' hard labour for each offence, sentences to run concurrently.