SUPREME COURT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1641, 23 November 1916, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

PALMERSTON SESSIONS. The quarterly sessions at the Supreme Court opened before Air Justice Edwards on Tuesday. The Grand Jury threw out a charge againsl, Andrew Hiilhven Buchanan of alleged carnal knowledge, and returned a true hill against. Emily Amelia Callaghan, who laid the latter charge, for alleged extortion by threats. Henry Johnson, on a charge of breaking and entering and stealing a lady’s oven-oat, live pairs of spectacles, and a set of military hair brushes, a silver wrilslet watch and a pair of scissors, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and declared lo be an habitual criminal. Emily .Amelia Callaghan, charged with endeavouring to extort £1,009 from Andrew Rut liven Buchanan by threats, pleaded guilty. The accused’s lawyer entered a plea for leniency, staling that she was iu a highly excited condition when she sent the letter to Buchanan asking for (he money, as she really believed that he had seduced her daughter. His Hi mour said lie would consider Hie mailer before coming to a. decision. The woman would come up for sentence on Friday. A case of alleged cattle stealing was commenced, in which Davis Ormond Smith, of Tahoraite, Hawke’s Bay, was charged with on or about November 15th, 1915, the theft of four heifers, valued at £3(l, the properly of Melville P. Knight,