SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 49, 14 October 1914, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

PRISONERS SENTENCED.' [Pme Pkeu Association ] Wellington, October 14. Six prisoners were sentenced by the Chief Justice (Sir llobert Stout) at the Supreme Court at Wellington. Claude Batt, on two charges ef forgery at Palmerston and one charge of forgery at Masterton, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on each charge —terms to be concurrent. Archibald Wilfred Rawles, for breaking and entering and theft at Stratford, six months’ imprisonment. John Johnston, alias llobert Lemon, six previous convictions for various offences, was sentenced to 18 months on a charge of breaking and entering and a theft at Palmerston. Herbert Henry Barrington, on four charges of breaking and entering and theft at Stratford, and two further charges of theft at Stratford, 12 months on each -charge, the terms to be concurrent. Edward M. Kenna, on three charges of forgery and uttering at Hastings, 18 months on each charge, the terms to be concurrent. James Little, for assaulting an aged Chinese in Courtenay Place recently, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment,to be followed by four years’ reformative treatment, the Judge ''remarking that he had acted in a cowardly and blackguardly manner. William Mullins, charged with attempting to murder his wife on 13th August and then attempting suicide, was committed for trial. The evidence went to show that Mullins, who sometimes behaved queerly, fired two shots at his wife and then shot himself, and that both parties wore taken to hospital in a critical condition. They recovered, but the bullets have not been extracted.