SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1923, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

['by TKLKOItAIMI — VBit I’ttUSS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, March 1.3. The following prisoners were sentenced at tho Supreme Court: John 1 William Wit hey. for breaking aml en- , Boring and theft at Daman ir: probation. John Mabalm, false pretences and forgery and uttering, twelve months’ imprisonment. Yee Him, breaking and entering with intuit, probation. Meang See Ying, breaking ami entering, probation. Thomas William Phaup, theft, forgery, and destroying documents with intent to defraud at Napier, nine months' hard labour. Margaret Josephine Windun. bigamy at Wanganui, one months' imprisonment. A 15AI) CASE. WELLINGTON March 13. “This is one of the worst cases of which I have had any experience,” said : Mr Justice Chapman at the Supreme j Court to-day, when sentencing William Henry Taylor of Palmerston North on two charges of theft from the New Zea- [ land Loan and Mercantile Agency Com-

! p“ny. Accused was the manager of the produce department, and the defalcations extended over seven years, the amount involved being £1429. Counsel for the accused said that pri- | so nor found he had to follow the custom and “shout” for customers at the completion of a deal. He then went j in for betting on horse racing. False cheques were drawn and the audit tailed to disclose it. Prisoner had a fnm--1 ily of seven children, i Tin* Judge said that if the whole : truth was known lie had little doubt that prisoner had been blackmailed by a bookmaker and bad boon robbing all the time, So far neither the law nor (lie ■ police have succeeded in grappling with these people. The family circumstances could not be considered in mitigation, and prisoner would be sentenced to four wars' bard labour. WAIHARAPA CASES. AIASTKISTOX, March 15. At tho Supreme Court, before Sir John Salmond, Alfred Henry Brentnall, contractor, of Mnrtinborough, was acquitted on two charges, that, with intent to defraud, lie attempted to obtain £••_>(!') from the New Zealand Insurance ( oinpanv by having made a false declaration that certain timber slabs that were destroyed by fire at Pihauten were worth L'2so to C3OO ; and that lie made ii I'al-e declaration lielore a solicitor. The defence set up was that there was a greater quantity of slabs than stated by the Crown witnesses, and the actual value was over £2OO. A case was commenced against lakira llaeata for attempted murder ol James Kciirick at Black Bock on February 4th. Counsel for accused is contending that llaeata fired the shots at Kenrick to bhlff and frighten him away, as the latter was living with accused s wite. The case is proceeding. THE “PRINCESS." I DCNF.TMN. March 15. j The Grand Duchess Princess lvanoI vitch. or (to use her more numerous ! English names) Harriet Rushford Henrietta. Southall Fuller, made an unosi tentatioiis arrival in Dunedin by the ' express from the north last evening, and she suffered the indignity of having to make a prolonged search for hotel accommodation. Five or six I houses which she tried were found to I have no available accommodation, but

1 at length, rooms wore secured by her in a leading city hotel, where she is .said to have created a favourable impression. despite the stories of her eei eentricities in the north One lady, with whom she came in contact, described her as a “charming well-spoken lady.” Dunedin society will not have the pleasure of entertaining the Duchess, for thi- morning she made a quiet departure by the south express on her way to Queenstown. ! PARLIAMENT ADJOURNED. WELLINGTON. March 16. By Gazette Extraordinary issued this morning. Parliament, which stands prorogued to 22nd March, lias been further adjourned until 26th April.