SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 27 August 1914, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

•' ■ i AN ANCIENT CRIME. By Telegraph—Press Association. • Auckland, Last Night. Yesterday afternoon the jury in the case in which James Falkener, alias Watson, alios Foley, was changed' with breaking and entering tlhc curio shop . c- f F. Jarsen, in Shortland street, and stealing 100 pendants, and alternatively, wiflh. receiving 26 pendants found in hi* ' I possession, returned a verdict of guilty J i of receiving thereby rejecting the evidence of finger-prints on the pieces of : j broken window by which tho police **«3 sought to identify the prisoner with tjse :i . erime, which was committed three year* ago. AYQaert Falkener appeared before , the judge for sentence to-day, counsel *■ for the defence pleaded' for leniency. ' ! i In passing sentence, His Honor ex- S pressed the opinion that the jury had ? taken a very lenient view of the case. That being the case, he did not intend to allow his own strong view—that tilie accused: was responsible for the theft it • self—to enter into consideration. In , t order to give the prisoner an opportunity of .showing 'his desire to rtfiwmi, and allowing for the fact, that the crimp happened two or three years ago, tlio sentence would be one of six month,.' imprisonment, to Ibe followed by two rfik' years" reformative treatment 'IS:;