SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 242, 18 November 1909, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. . Auckland, Wednesday. In the Supreme Court the following prisoners were sentenced:—Mark Craven Richards, for assault, the outcome uf a filthy practical joke, three months' imprisonment with hard labor; Wm. Duncan, assaulting an old woman, nine months' hard labor; Wm. Miles, alias German, for theft and breaking and entering, eighteen months' hard labor; Chas. Rynan, described as a "really habitual criminal," for theft, two years' imprisonment with hard labor.

WELLINGTON' SESSroNS. Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court today, (lie jury disagreed in the ease in which Alfred Charles Warren was charged with abducting the ten-year-old son of Win. Hounslow, a printer. Hounslow had I dhtained a divorce on account of Irs 'wife's misconduct with Warren, the Court granting the father custoilv of the children. It was alleged that Hounslow took the children to a boardi'ighouse at Mature, in the King Connh-v, and that accused and the woman for-i' !-• took the child awav. The f.ithcr Ins not seen the lad since. The c.ise will he mentioned in court again to-morro Thomas Tliggins n nd John McCavih young men. were convicted of asmuitfag Charles Heron and friicturins his jaw nnd causing other injuries. Hirri" ir»* sent to gaol for eighteen inonlh- and McCarthy for nine months.