SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 117, 15 June 1909, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

AtCKUXI) SKSSIOXS. By Telegraph.— Press AsaociaUsyn,, Auckland, Mondav. At the Supreme Court, llelirv Terawluti, a Maori, who was found guilty ol perjury, and in whose case the jury made a recommendation to mercy on the ground that he had been the'catspaw of a clever criminal appeared for sentence. Judge Edwards said the jury ';j '"" I'"!'"' i.V 'acts a, he did. lia'-l not a solicitor i„ tnf cas_e. ju, wh>|, tno perjury was cpii W tte.d. concealed a shorthand writer i,\ the room in which the conversation between the parties had been held, the other man would have been convicted, and Terawhiti would have ..scaped scot free. The ncrjui'.v was committed with the object of getting another man convicted, 'it was fi vicious and serious' oll'ence. A sci., tencc of seven rears' was indicted' liichard White, found BHiHy B HiHy on'fm-ty charge* ot theft, was sentenced to seven years. the Judge stating that the science was made the more severe because, this being the first time of capture he could not sentence him as' a habitual criminal. (•corge Jfaek, for breaking, equity, theft receiving and false p ( Ureived two years', Wl|iia,n Knox, for "I'l'l o(. 1, '.■.|,e,ni,y.ii|.the.slot" birdca«e wai. sentenced to three years' and declared a habitual oriminal. Edwa-d Miox, for receiving, received eighteen months', ° , .„ -Auckland. Wt Xight. J nuk l '.""- ««'vii-KM of „ „r„ liw , "llcucc again,! „ „i,.| ,„„,,.,. „. um * *\ |^ : . to. t 1( ,,, years' ~„.