SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 20 February 1914, Page 8

SUPREME COURT.

\VKLM.\'<ITOX SI'ISSIUN'S. By Tclegrapn.— l'ross Association. Wellington. Yesterday. At tlio Supreme Court Bernard Smith was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for indecently assaulting a little girl. Thomas Coffey for attempting an indecent assault to three years' imprisonment, Sydney Ilall ou a similar charge to I'2 months' imprisonment, David Menzies for indecent assault (lye years' imprisonment. The Chief Justice gave a warning of his intention to order Hoggings in future for similar cases. AUCKLAND CRIMINAL SESSION". Auckland, Wednesday. Ceorge Harris, who was yesterday convicted of an attempt to' steal a pocket-book from Jos. Cliadwick on the •Vt'lmngarei racecourse, was further charged with the theft of a purse containing .€lB from William Blake liowen at the Whangarei races. The jury found him not guilty. He will lie seiifenced on the first charge next week. Albert Win. Stanley, who pleaded guilty in the lower court to forgery, was admitted to probation for a period of two years, and ordered to pay his debt of £9 as well as the costs of the prosecution. A laborer, Michael Delancv, near middle age, pleaded not guilty to a charge of theft from the person at Auckland on November 1. The jury disagreed, and a new trial was ordered. -Two prisoner, undergoing sentence in Ml. Kden gaol, Albert Edward McQueen and Ilarry Wilson, Appeared to answer charges of attempting to render a warder and a prisoner incapable 0 f resistance, of doing tlieni actual bodily harm, and of attempting to escape. Both pleaded Hot guilty. The proceedings were adjourned. AI'CKLANI) CRIMINAL SESSIONS. I

Auckland, Lust Xiglit. illicit Kdward McQueen and Hurry « ilson, prisoners serving long terms o'f imprisonment at -Mount Men, were today found guilty at tlie Supreme Court in assaulting Warder Anderson and Alfred l'roasken, causing actual bodily mi nil, and Jil.so attempting to escape oin t,lc gaol. Sentence was deferred. J'rank Ernest Wat ling, wlio had pleaded guilty to a charge of forgiri" till' liaille of his employer to a cheque (or a,- came up for sentence. It was stated that his employer had reposed Millinent, confidence in him to go bondsman and to offer to employ him in the 111! lire. His Honor regarded the employers action as most humane and generous, and under the circumstances, agreed to give the prisoner another .•nice. He was ordered to come up lor sentence when called upon. A young man named Thomas Ward pleaded not guilty to a charge of the theft of a watch and (lladstone ba"■ I lie property of \. B. tusk, at Te Kuiti in I'ebruarv of IAI2. The accused maintained that the articles had been presented to him. and the jury found him not guilty. Charles Palmer pleaded not guilty to a charge of false pretences. Jt was stated that he represented himself as a member of a well-known Auckland family, and induced a tailor to cash a valueless cheque for him. He c;iimed that, he could provie an alibi, anil the case was adjourned to give liiin an opportunity to do so. Walter Kenny pleaded guiltv to charges of burglary, and was sentenced to three years' reformative treatment.