SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 225, 11 February 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AI'CKLAXD SESSION,*-. Per Press Association. Auckland. .'Monday. Mr. Justice Edwards sentenced Wali ter Tiichani Page, for then from a vest']. to twelve months' hard labor and (ive years' reform:;! ive treatment. Tliolll as Herbert Aiiken. for forgery at Gisborue, was si-n 1 cm-cil to one x ear's imprisonment and Lwo years' ret'onuative treatment. William ilcrl Millington. for theft from a boarding-house. received six month*' imprisonment, and two years' reformative treatment, hdwnrd Chas. P>enburv. alias .John Hundley. IS years of age, 011 two charges of breaking and entering in Auckland, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment 011 each charge, the sentences to he concurrent, and five years' reformat ive treatment. 11 is Honor remarked that it was a pity the lad hail not been kept in New South Wales, where he came from. There was ample employment for honest in New Zealand, but prisoner preferred lo climb up waterpipes into warehouses instead of earning an honest living. Diinediri. Last Tight.. At the Supreme Court to-day John Millar was acquitted on a charge of commit)ins an unnatural offence near 1!a lei u Ilia. and Alexander Tfi.",\':i.r)li TTartland .lonian was acquitted on a charge, of indecent exposure at Duneftin. THE CASE AOATXST TTR. PvUSSELL. Christelmreh. Last Xight. l'n cornice)ion with the charge against Charles .Tames "Russell of having attempted illegally to procure abortion, which was adjourned at the last session of the Supreme Court, at the Supreme Court to-day application was made lor turther adjournment. His Honor. logeiher with counsel for accused and .Mr. L. . SI ringer. K.C.. held a i-hort conciliation, and tin l apiilieation For adjournment was refused. The case will proceed this scs- , ?ion, [iroltahly io-iiiorrow. CHTHSTCTTITRCrT sessions. 1 Christeliure.il. Last Nialit. > At the Supreme Court. Queenie Wilson . pleaded guilty to perjury, and was or- ; dered to come up for sentence when 1 called upon. Edgar Stanley Hall plead--3 vd guillv to two charges of honsebreak- , ing and theft, and was ordered to comr I up for sentence when called upon, and ; admitted to probation for twelve, months 3 ,Tas. Alexander Cunningham pleader 3 guilty to breaking, entering and theft 3 He was admitted to twelve months' pro r lirdion. Michael Dcmpscy was found no) s guilty of committing an unnatural act ; The firand Jury returned no bill agains' 5 Thos. Hobbs, charged with an indccen" act, intending to insult.