SUPREME COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 178, 1 September 1909, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

■♦ AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court this mornijg on a charge of robbery with violence at Newmarket, William 'Harnett was sentenced to eighteen inon'ths' imprisonment and Charles Cumming and Walter H. Page each to one month's imprisonment. DIVORCE SITTING. Christchurch, Last Night. At a sitting in divorce hold this afternoon decrees nisi were 'granted as under:—Namomcd Din v. Gertie Esther Din, breach of order for restitution of conjugal rights; Emma Mabel Johnston v. Alfred Ernest Johnston, drunkenness ; and desertion; Lottie Annie Greenwood v. Cecil Danfrc Greenwood, misconduct. 1 WELLINGTON POSTAL ROBBERY CASE.

Wellington, August 31. The trial of Winsett, who is charged with being concerned in the robbery of parcels at the Post, Office, Wellington, was continued to-day. Hemingway was further examined for the third day in succession. He has now been in the box for over ten hours. Hemingway declared that no one but Wiinsett gave him the information concerning the parcels, notes, and diamonds in the office. The reason he had used explosives' in connection with the robbery was that no one in the office should be suspected of the crime. Great interest was taken in the illustration given by Hemingway, at the request of the Crown Prosecutor, of how to make impressions of kevs in sealing-wax. Wellington, Last Night. The trial of Arthur Wimsett was continued all day, and will be resumed tomorrow.