SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 279, 19 November 1908, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

CHINAMAN CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. Uy Telegraph. -Press Association. Auckland, hast Night. At the sittings uf tlic Supremo Court to-day ji Chinaman, Louie Vug, otherwise known as Shue Hock, was arraigned on a charge of having on or about August 8 last at Alt. iioskill murdered it tellow-coimtryman named Fong Along dice. The jury brought ill a verdict 01 manslaughter, and prisoner , was sentenced to two years'. CHRISTCHUKCH .SESSIONS.

Christchurch, Wednesday. In the Supreme Court, Edward l'otts, aged 30, and Frederick Creagh, aged 20, both recently from Australia, when: the latter had been twice convict.nl, were sentenced, Creagh to five yea's and l'otts to two years, for theft. Ohristchiireh, Last Night. Thos. Jackson was sentenced to tlrec years' imprisonment for robbery from the person. An elderly man nanv.'d Alexander Johnson was convicted of indecently assaulting a child of live, sentence being deferred. Edgar Gustav Alarck was indicted for that on October Ist lie stole a horse, gig, and set of harness of the value of £4l !)s, the property of Robert Forbes. He was con vh-leil and sentenced to two years' ini prisoiinipnt and was declared "an iiablt ual criminal, his record being a very bar one.