SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 64, 6 September 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

NAPIER SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Yesterday. There are only six ctises on the criminal calendar of the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), in charging the Grand Jury, congratulated the district on the fact. Alfred Charles Cordiny was admitted to probation for six months for making a false declaration under the Marriage Act. 1 Napier, Night. At the Supreme Court to-day William McCarthy, for the theft of a silver watch, was found guilty. Sentence was deferred tiill to-inor.row. Frederick Twart, for cruelly ill-treat-ing a horse by failing to provide it with proper food, water and shelter, was found guilty. The Chief Justice said he would not impose a term of imprisonment, but would take till to-morrow to consider what fine he would impose. TIMARU SESSIONS. Timaru, Last Night. At the Supreme Court a middle-aged laborer 'named Clousen, a foreigner, but a long resident here, pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a bicycle. Other .charges to be heard against him are breaking and entering and stealing clothing. The bicycle was stolen from the owner in Timaru, and was in the accused's possession at Oamaru next day, also a swag containing some of the stolen clothes. The defence was that accused bought both the swag and the bicycle from some man on the road. The jury disagreed, and were discharged. AUCKLAND SESSIONS. Auckland, Last Night. The trial 1 of Martha Jane O'Shaughnesisey, a woman of middle age, better known in Auckland as -Mrs. Maxwell, on a charge that she did on or about June 13 last at Kingsland murder a young woman named Elsie Alexandra Holland, was begun at the Supreme Court to-day. The evidence for the prosecution, which was the same as that given in the lower Court, had not concluded when the Court rose.