SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 198, 30 November 1910, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

INVERCARGILL CRIMINAL SESSIONS

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day a fairly large criminal list was disposed of in short order. There were four cases against five persons sent up for trial, and two eases in which four persons were committed for sentence. It is somewhat of a tribute to the capacity of the Southland police that in the four cases for trial the accused decided to plead guilty. For being accessories after the escape of two prisoners (by giving them ' comforts and. assistance) William A. Robertson and Jas. Robertson were each fined £5 and £4 costs.

For attempted murder at Waipouna : mu Jas. Louttit was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment. For selling a postal packet containing money, Henry Faithful Winter, a letter carrier, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Henry Greenway, for making a false declaration under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, was fined £5. John Burke and Percy Hutchins, charged with breaking and entering and theft, were admitted to conditional probation, and Chas. McQuarrie, a companion, was sentenced to six months.' Samuel Locelyn (a lad), for breaking and entering, was ordered six months' reformatory treatment.