SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2159, 15 August 1907, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, August 14. A At the Supreme Court Henry Dyer, an elderlv man moving in respectable society, was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for incest with h.u granddaughter, aged 13} years. Edward Dyer was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for incest. A\ m Stanton, .who had been practising here for some time past as a healer ano g candor curer, was convicted of man- b ; slaughter in respect of the death from diphtheria of a young man ' treated by him. Stanton had failed to diagnose the case as one of diphtheria and his treatment, according j to medical testimony, was absolutely useless for the purpose of the 1 complaint.- Hail the patient receive'! - proper treatment his life would have j ’ been saved. Sentence was deferretuntil t^ELLH'I ( GTON, August 13. i At tlio Supreme Court to-day tli ; case in which Sydney Macnamairr : ; was charged with having kept a’ com %■' men gaming-house was concluded, ac &V- cusod being found nos guilty AA 1 1 ? Lam Henry Oaken fall plead eel no •"uiltv to a charge of stealing £8 fion i .Charles Kidehalgh at Martinborough but pleaded guilty to receiving n on ev knowing it to have been stolen The prosecution accepted tinss P and sentence was deferred. ‘ Kennedy was acquitted on a chaig oVXahng £5 fi'om Kere.dick S^ge at Mastenton. Sitting in D.ivorc Air Ji—ticc Cooper granted a d^crei nisi for the. el-issolutmn of John Me Ilwhain’-s marriage with "™ y , rjff, 1 , wha-ill, on tlio ground of the latter . ' misconduct. LLi NGONA ugi r tlL • At the Supreme Court tci-day AVilliam Jowett Hirst was found guilty of forging and uttering cheques foi £.- island £l6 9s at Palnatua. Ilic iurv recommended the accused to leniency owing to his previous goou libs,. tabssss {SfttoUSS'k™ tlfVStcrto, railway sheds where he was employed as storeman. Accused was found not guilty. DUNEDIN, August 13. Mr. Justice AVilliams to-day sem tenced Donald MacDonald to 1-' months’ imprisonment for theft. Charles Henry Johnson to 9 months ;: for theft and Michael Lenehan to 1- > months for theft. Mary Gibson was ordered to come up for sentence for registration of birtn. vvm. Campbell Smith for breaking ami enterin'' was discharged, on . Smith s lot or entering into a recognisance of £2O that accused would come up if called on. Alfred Leonard Blue, concerning whom the industrial schools authorities reported very adversely, was sentenced to 2 years for housebreaking, and AVilhnm Dougall to eighteen months for embezzlement.