SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 157, 20 November 1912, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

A WELLINGTON DIVORCE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. A decree nisi was granted in the divorce case Samuel James Sanson v! Isabel Mary Sanson, on the ground of insanity.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. Auckland, Tuesday. In the Supreme Court, Nellie TCmmelyne Christian, aged 30, was sentenced to four years' reformative treatment for vagrancy. Edwin Fowlds, for breaking and entering at Hamilton, received two years' hard labor and three years' reformative treatment. William Frederic Murray, aged nineteen, and Sydney Power, aged 20, for bag-snatching and hotel thefts, were sentenced to. one year's imprisonment and declared habitual criminals. Wilfred Augustus Hicks, who forged a cheque at Gisborne, was admitted to probation for three years, a condition of release being that lie refrain from betting or attending race meetings. Auckland, Last Night. At the Supreme Court Edward Lansing Huston, alias David Lansing Huston, who twice escaped froirt custody, was up on trial. One of the charges against him has not been heard. Accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each of two charges of escaping from custody, the sentences to be concurrent. On each of two charges of breaking and entering while at large, Huston was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, the sentences to be concurrent. He was also declared an habitual criminal.