SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 37, 24 May 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

DUNEDIN SENTENCES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 23. In the Supreme Court Mr. justice j Williams passed these sentences: I Daniel Morgan, for receiving a stolen j watch, fifteen months; William Henry I Harris, for possession of counterfeit j coins, three years; Frank Mervyn Ken- ' isted convicted of false pretences and forgery, sentence deferred; Daniel Sweeney, false pretences, six months. DIVORCE CASES. Auckland, May 23. In the Supreme Court, in divorce, a decree nisi was granted in the case Edward Bowles v. Agnes Janes Bowles and •Daniel Stewart, co-respondent, in which the jury found that misconduct nad taken place, but that petitioner had not been guilty of cruelty to respondent. Christchurch.. May 23. \A decree nisi was granted in the i case of Randall Crowley v. Sarah Crowley, a petition for divorce on the grounds of misconduct. The case of Halligan was postponed to enable the parties to consider the question of agreeing to a separation order. THE PIANO THEFTS. Wellington, May 23. \ Edward John Falkiner, an employee in the Telegraph Department, who nad [ been found guilty of several charges of '. fraudulent conversion of theft and for- ' gery in connection with transactions in pianos, for which accused was agent, was sentenced to-day to two years' and ' three months' imprisonment with hard , labor. POWELKA. TRUE BILLS ON EACH CHARGE. Palmerston North, Last Night. The criminal sitting of the Supreme" Court commenced to-day, before Mr. Justice Cooper. True bills were found in all cases, including all the charges against Powelka. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Wellington, Last Night. ' At the Supreme Court to-day, James Cuinniings and John Hennessy, for as- . sault and robbery, were each sentenced : to eighteen months' imprisonment. Edward William Kelly and Alexander . Driscoll, for assault with intent to rob, i were each sent to prison for twenty-one , months. ' ALLEGED ARSONIST ACQUITTED. RAILWAY SERVANT CHARGED WITH THEFT. Dunedin. Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day Andrew Moore, charged with setting fire to a building at Port Chalmers, and on a second count with attempting to set fire to a building, was acquitted. Albert Whitmore Cimrnside, porter on tJhe railways at Port Chalmers, was ; charged with stealing a, handbag, a gold i watch and chain, and several rings, the . property of Agnes Henderson. The case '! for the prosecution was that last Nosi vember Mrs. Henderson went to Port , j Chalmers by train, and on leaving the r; carriage she forgot 'her handbag contain- ,| ing the articles mentioned. She discov- | ered the loss a lew hours later, but enquiries failed to lead to the production of the property. Some months later deI tectives found the accused's wife wearing one of the rings. When questioned on the matter tlhe accused said he had bought the ring for a girl at Palmerston North, but she had returned it, and ,he subsequently gave it to his wife. The girl referred to denied having received the ring from accused, and the case is not yet concluded.