SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 46, 6 March 1901, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

[PKIt PRMBS ASSOCIATION. J INVERCARGH.L, March 5. At the Supremo Court to-day Chas, [f«itl.-y civine up for sentenoe for break • iiig and eiiteiing and stealing. Pri-oner with :n>oth-.r nimed BmoVs escaped from th« hard labour gang hire some weeks us-o, and committed the offence. Oe was silenced to six months hnrd labour. Broiks will be sentenced in Dunedin whitlwr he has been removed. John Robert Corkbill was sentenced to six months for forging and uttering three c'seqiifs for small amounts. William A ndr-ew received three month s For stealing a dog. The eeosttianal KdendaU taw then came o», Charle. Areott p'oading guilty to U inf >r<nati >ns including th.:fr, forgery and utt ring, tie to al amount involve! te : ng .£478. Avrnstt, as agent, received the money ti ;wy the rabbi terp, and sip- | piopriated it to his own use, commit-1 ing forgwis to cover up the de'in-qu-nci <s. Toe more aerioua charge of att'opting t:> poison Milne, the chief sufferer by the thefts, was postponed i'l tbe next sitting of the Court. He was to three years hard labour. The Grand Jury threw out the indictment charging H. 0. Colyer with the rape of a girl of 12 years and sent him for trial on a coant charging him with cwnnl knowledge; but after complainant aad har cousia, a hoy tf 1 15, admitted immorality bsf.-.ro Colyer entered tho house, and tho boy having ■stated tii.,t tlw girl suggested putting the blame'--n C-lyer, the Cro.vm Pro..Qcutor thrt w up tha eate. Auckland, Maroh 5. Tim 5 eat ing of tho ch.irj/e of wife ' murde. npairst R win Te M* wascjn-1 tinned yes erday, but ibe jury unable to agree. Ane ,v will take place,