SUPREME COURT

Southland Times, Issue 18821, 14 May 1920, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. PRISONERS SENTENCED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 13. At the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Herdman sentenced a number of prisoners as follows: Benjamin Henry Bright, for assault, twelve months’, imprisonment with hard labour. John Henry Morgan, breaking into the D.1.C., twelve months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Harold Colej', assaulting and robbing a drunken man, three years’ reformative detention. Harry Wandle, assaulting his housekeeper, 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour. James Newberry, assaulting two women in their own homo at an early hour in the morning, five years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Theresa Russell, stealing a roll of bank notes from a man she met in a side street, eighteen months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Arthur Harry Hart, indecently assaulting a male, two years’ hard labour. Robert Douglas, committing bigamy, two years’ imprisonment with hard labour.

SHEEP STEALING.

A PECUNIARY PENALTY.

DUNEDIN, May 13. At the Supreme Court Adam Murdoch MsDonald, manager of Ormaglade station, near Roxburgh, was charged with the theft of some thirty sheep from neighbouring sheepowners. The evidence wont to show that the earmarks of sheep straying on Ormagladc station had been tampered with. The jury retired at 5 p.m. and returned at 10.40 p.m. with a verdict of guilty, with a very strong recommendation to mercy on account of the laxity of the manner in which the earmarking of the sheep in the district generally had been carried out in the past, also on account of the uon-obser-vanco of the regulations required by law as to notifying neighbouring sheepowners of mustering®, and also on account of the age and character of accused in the past. His Honour Mr Justice Sim said that in view of the circumstances and the jury’s recommendation he would be justified in imposing a pecuniary penalty. Accused would bo fined £125, which would be sufficient to cover the expenses of the prosecution.