Dunedin Supreme COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 119, 26 April 1883, Page 2

Dunedin Supreme COURT.

fßr TELEOHAPH.) PRESS AS3OCIATIOST..) Donedis, April 25. John Gardiner pleaded guilty to ' hou^ebreakin* at Otarua, aq<\ was sontenced to six mor.ths' imprisonmaut with hard labor. John Hines, c young lad, for uttering and forging a cheque at Wyndham, was found guilty, and recommended to leniency by the jury. He was sentenced to one month's imprisoDmaat. P. Casey pleaded guilty to stealing from the pocket of a feilowworker, m the harvest field, a purse and £20 13s, and was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor. Charles Sullivan, charged with rape on a foung girl of thirteen years at Waimatuku, pleaded not guilty. The proof was mo^t clear and conclusive, and he was found guilty. His Honor, m passing santence, ssid the prisoner had been convicted of the most brutal offence* o£ rape he had ever to deal within his experience, and sentenced htm to twelve year's penal servitude, with twentyxfire lashes whh tho cat on Monday next, and twenty-five m a month hence. The audience applauded, Sullivan gave his age as forty eight, and said he had been m the asylum at New "Sork four years ago, and was discharged before he was cured ot insanity, and professed to remember nothing about the offence, having been drunk.