Supreme Court Sittings.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7734, 9 February 1905, Page 2

Supreme Court Sittings.

(Per Press Association,) TIMAItI", Feb. » At the Supreme Court to-day, Spencer umi Eden, found guilty of stealing wool from Aslihurton farm. era, came up for sentence. Kpencer got fifteen months, and Bdcn four 1 months. 1 THE PHEVALK.NCE OF PERJURY. - AI OKIvANI), Feb. 8. f At tin- Supreme Court to-day Mr ' Tolu (Crown Prosotutor) said' that - i>erjury wan iMXioming so prevalent « that he sometimes felt it well niirh i' ini|H>s«il)Jo tol conduct c/mea at all. I His Honour said witnesses not only ■ - deceived by exaggeration, but ob- - vjously told deliberate concoctions. I Tho cusu in connection w -jt n which ' I those, remarks were made is tho so- ■•■ cond this week in which hi* Honour has iiad occasion lo complain of perjury, *•" TK AW.UTK MI'KDKK TRIAL. WEbUNOTON, Fob. 8. At the trlnl of Ellin, I»r. l'aliuer, ■ | who roto evidence concerning tho . wounds on Colljnson'K l»ody, raid M, - j would have own Impossible for such [ i wounds to bo caused by u bullet i u Snider carbine, • I William TisduU, gunttuith, sajid i that numbers of different rifle* took tho same, calibre of cartridge. It I would bo a most injudicious thing to fire, a .308 cartridge from a rifle | chambered (o carry a ,300. It might. .' lie done without accident a thousand ' ■|l linen, or a rifle might "go off" the - lirst time, The bullet in a .808 cgr|treidße was slightly larger In | diameter than a .800 bullet, but , was (ivo grains lighter, The ofterlivo range of a .03 Winchester rifle . | such as that produced would be 700 or 800 yards, and lt»earning range 'at lenstjaooo yards. H e believed . ihnt n .800 bullet fired from this I rifle would kill nl n distance of 1000 . yards. The wound descrilicd by Dr. , I'alineri eotihJ4 he believed, have been caused by a 300, 808, or 824 I bullet. Tne majority of stag-shoot-I era used .303 cartridges. Tho witness Oroville, recalled, stuf [ ed that there would lie nothing to , interrupt the sign! in the case of a ■ , person tiring from almost any point along the range above Coles Crock . n) any object near Hie position on I which Colljnson'K body was found. The hearing stands adjourned until to-morrow. E'-—. 1 J_.l. !.Ji