SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1929, Page 5

SUPREME COURT .

l \ .f j ;,. DAtKEMADEi, $ (By Telegraph—!f?er Press Association.)! j ■ .. . . ‘ * WELLINGTON, 'May 9. After ten minutes’ retirement, the; jury in-the Supreme Court to-day, be-; Fore Chief Justice Myers, found Cor T neille Hubert De May Dalkemade, described as a farmer, guilty of three) charges of theft involving £l9O 15s, the proprety of Jessie Gordon., Butzback, a widow, formerly of Palmerston North, but now of Wellington The prisoner induced Airs Butzback to sign a very full power .of attorney, and); operated on her banking account. • ... VI , 3 C BRISONERS SENTENCED. ‘! CHRISTCHURCH, May. 10. ( Prisoners sentenced-by Judge Adanis were:— '• '•> Maurice Sydney-'Mblcleh, forgery, to three months: concurrent with sentence, already being served. ' r > j Daniel Granger Ward, indecent act;, to six- months. L. •/ ; MRS STANLEY’S SENTENCE. Y CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. M j* Airs .Isabella Alabel ..Stanley j. ing a car (cjjusiiig the, death of Stephen James Johnston was:, ordered to come up for sentence when) called within a year. , Her present) license to drive was? suspended and slie| was disqualified from holding a driver’s* license for the whole term of her life,,-. •; ■ ■v_J-i 3U a M :j JUDGE’S COMMENT. % The Judge said that-filiere were pain-’, ful features in the case, but it was the ’ Court’s duty to consider all the cirV; cumstances and the interest of public. reports that Airs Stanley was a woman of unblemished imputation. The jury’s strong recommendation to mercy justified him in taking a course that commended itself to his own sense of fitness and right. It was beyond question that Airs . Stanley should not be in a position to imperil property, limbs and life on the highway.

OTHER SENTENCES. CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. .J Frederick Richardson, for assault; and causing bodily harm to two probation. The Judge said a hnstC; temper evidently caused him to firp,’ the shotgun at John Armstrong. .g Arthur Stace, indecent assault oift a little girl, to seven years hard labC our arid one five charges of housed breaking, etc., to two years gaol, and.'; declared an habitual■ criminal. • , Robert James Mitchell, theft, tß‘ three years reformative. <’•' -y -- ;’/i • SiDANDER GLAUM. *$ WELLINGTON, May 10. g Before Judge MacGregor,- •Jan.'s Meiklejohn Mathesori is claiming £SOO. damages against Henry Schneideman, clothing manufacturer, for alleged slander. AVords are alleged to have; I been used to two accountants. The affair arose out of business transactions between the parties, and Schneideman is alleged to have imputed a wilful overstatement m the stocksheets of stocks that Schneide-. man. was purchasing.