SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 306, 20 May 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wellington, Friday. Several prisoners were sentenced at the Supreme Court to-day. FrederickHunter, on a charge of indecent assault on a male, was ordered to be sent to the Invercargill gaol, and at the end of three months he could apply for release, and, if he were then rid of the trouble which had led to his crime, he would be released on probation. John Hackett, on a charge of indecent assault, was allowed out on probation for three years, on condition that he was taken fo the mental hospital every six months. Charles Gurote, for theft, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor. O'Brien, charged with theft, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and three years' reformatory treatment. Frank Vosse, on a like charge, was sentenced to two years', and declared an habitual criminal. Wellington, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day an elderly man named David Irwin was sentenced to two years' imprisonment f<jr having received stolen property. • DUNEDIN' SESSIONS. Duiledin, Last Night. At tlie Supreme Court to-day John Greig, who came up for sentence on a charge of forgery and uttering, was admitted to probation for two years on condition that he paid £2 (sic) to Mary Houlihan by instalments of £2, the costs of the prosecution and abstainea from alcoholic liquor. Charles McDonald, who had to answer three charges of breaking and entering, theft and receiving goods, knowing them to have been stolen, was convicted, and on the charges of receiving stolen property he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and ordered to be detained for not more than four years for reformative treatment. Samuel McDonald, who had pleaded guilty in the lower Court to nine charges of breaking and entering, received a similar sentence.