SUPREME COURT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10064, 4 February 1909, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

il'f.p. Prkss Association.) Wellington. February 3.

At the Supreme Court to-<lny .Tame? Kay HorseiM-lil was to two yenr.=' h:ir<l la!«>r tor breakiii<_'. enter : iiL r . an-1 thievins at I'almerston X«rth. Samuel Hc*u-i< k. for •jattle stealing isix charges) was sentence*! to five years' har<l labor. P..y-.i ( j' v-tv-<i was sentenced to 12 month.-' hard labor for forgery and uttering at Masterton. Omrijio Tolly and Charles Henderson, for six offences cf breaking and entering and thieving in the Ma.-terton and Carterton districts, were each sentenced to seven years' hard labor for breaking, entering, and stealing r.t Wellington (two charges). Milfonl George Burgess. 21 years of a-e. pleaded to eleven charges of breaking, entering. and t.-Leving and around Wellington. It was shown that , there was a lone list of convictions against the prisoner for offences committed in Australia. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment anu declared to be an habitual criminal. Henry Williams, alias Watson Harry, alias Fricnberg. was sentenced to five years' hard labor for breaking, entering. and stealing. Joseph Xorman was ••Inrired with attempting, in November 20th to innrder Alexander Armstrong. Go vernor of Wellington Terrace Oaol. where Xorman was 3 nrisoner. Xorman. it was stated, stabbed Mr Armstrons in the back of the neck with a chisel. Had Mr Armstronj tamed but .1 traction of an inch iust before the olow was struck, it. must have been fatal. The prisoner said he had 110 witnesses to call. He would not -evidence, and he did not care anyhow. "Ever since he had been in gaol they had been trying to kill him with gases and stnff they had pnt on his_ faw. "Hie jnry fonnd accused guilty of wounding and doing bodily harm with the intention of doin!r crrievo;is bodily harm. Hi; Honor Mr Justice Cooper said the prisoner should be brought up on Monday for sentence, and he examined bv two doctors in the meantime to see if he was sane. Edward Isichard Black admitted three charges of breaking, entering, and stealing. Tt was shown that- the prisoner.had served many sentences for serious crimes since 1898." He was sentenced to seven year?" hard labor, and declared an habitual criminal. Frederick Arnold was convicted of common assanlt. and remanded for. sentence. "Hie Grand Jury found no bill in the case of Robert Charles Collins, who was charged with - manslaughter in connection with the death-of a man named Ferjaon. It was alleged that on a Saturday night in December Collins strrick Ferguson a blow, from the effects of which' he died. Collins said Ferguson was making a disturbance, and ho merely pushed him, and that, as Ferguson was standing on the edge of the footpath and was not sober, he fell.