NAPIER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 356, 14 June 1877, Page 2

NAPIER.

AMONGST THE CRIMIMALS,

June 13

At the Supreme Court yesterday John Cartwright and James Peters were acquitted on the charge of obtaining goods by false pretences. Charles Henry Ingle pleaded guilty to a charge of forging two small cheques, amounting together to L 6 ss. Hans Petersen was acquitted on a charge of arson. The principal witness against him was a Maori woman, married to a white man, ami she admitted having been imprisoned for six months for stealing a watch. Prisoner received an excellent character from witnesses of undoubted credibility. There was an indictment against Petersen for assaulting the same Maori woman with intent ; but no evidence was offered upon it, and the Judge directed his acquittal. This morning, Ingle, for forgery, was sentenced to two years' hard labor. The whole day was occupied with the trial of James Neagle and three others, for forcible entry upon premises that had belonged to Neagle, but which were at the time in the possession of Mr. Macfarlane, on the strength of a bill of sale from Neagle to M'Arthur and Co., of Auckland. Mr. Rees prosecuted. The jury found Neagle guilty, and acquitted the others. Neagle was sentenced to a fine of LIOO ; in default, three months' imprisonment with hard labor.