SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 203, 25 February 1914, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

I AUCKLAND 6.:SSION*S. By Tdegr;i[ih —l'n.-is Associnfiou. ! Auckland, Last Night. | lu tlip Supremo Court to-day, Frank I Alesscilger denied that lie broke into Hie | premises of the Mew Zealand Boot Comj puny and stole two pairs of boots. The jury returned a verdict of —titty, and the prisoner was sentenced to 12 I months' imprisonment and two years' reformative treatment. The re-trial of .Michael Delaney, on a charge of stealing £2(i from tile' person of an Austrian jriimdii.'ser, early in the evening of November 1, resulted in a \erdiet of guilty. Delauey was ordered to lie detained for a period not exeeedI inj; two years, for reformative trenti ment. •loseph William- pleaded not guilty to , breaking into a dwelling-house at Itemui era on February 4. anif stealing articles valued at £4l). .Much evidence was I heard, and the jury was still considering its verdict at 7.:W p.m. Tohi lluitoroa, the young nativ* who admitted charges of forgery and uttering, was reported upon unfavorably by the police, the suggestion being l tha't he was of lazy and unsteady habits, spenduig money in holiday-making and in motor-car riding, and that in the past he had given trouble because of mischievous action. His Honor admitted the prisoner to probation ior a period of three years, tin condition that ho abstained from liquor and paid the full costs of the prosecution.