SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 25 May 1911, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

HEAVY SENTENCE'S. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Bast Night. At the Supreme Court this afternoon, John Andrew Showstrand, aged 4!), a carpenter by trade, who lives at Onebnnga, denied a charge of committing a criminal act on a nine-year-old son. Accused was undefended by counsel. The jury returned a verdict of guilty without retiring, and the prisoner was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, while on a further charge of incest, to which he pleaded guilty in the lower court, he was sentenced to a further ton years’ imprisonment. WELLINGTON SESSIONS. Wellington, Last Night. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court concluded to-day with the hearing of a charge of false pretences against.a young man named William Janies Hughes. It was alleged that Hughes borrowed sums totalling Tot) from two old people named Blake at Karori, representing that he would shortly receive money from ‘property in Wales. Accused was found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment.

DIVORCE COURT,

Wellington, Bast Night. In lire Divorce Court, decrees nisi were granted in the case of Ellen Wiseman v. Ernest Wiseman, desertion; William Bingford v. Florence Langford and Noah Morgan (co-respondent), adultery; Caroline Forrest Stapleton v. Percival Ernest Stapleton, drunkenness, cruelty and adultery; and Herbert Montague Rosenberg v. Ada Rosenberg, adultery.