SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1917, Page 4

SUPREME COURT.

YESTERDAY'S ' ' The quarterly session* of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth were continued yesterday before his Honor Mr, Justice Edwards. . • DEFERRED SENTENCES., Fredk. A. Bridgman, who on Tuesday I was convicted of the theft of gelignite from the Government quarry lat Mt. Egmont, was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution, amounting Uf £9 7a 4d. His Honor said he would .make no order as to repayment of Upvalue of the stolen goods, as the Crown had it within their powwe to sesip tint amount. <. Walter Sutton, convicted oi» Tuesday on his own plea of guilty, on & charge of making a false declaration for the purpose of securing a certifies to of marriage, was ordered to pay the- coiU of the prosecution amounting to £SO.7f Bd, and to come up fox sentence when called upon • THEFT AT ELTOAM. Frederick Theodore Sonlton pleaded guilty' to breaking and enuring and theft from the Eltham, railway!:station, on or about September 14, WW, of goods to the value of £5; aluo to breaking, entering, and stealing from the dwelling of Edward Zimmerman, at Eltham, goods to the value of £8 13s. His Honor, in sentencing prisoner, said he had had an unhappy career for a young man only 19 ye%r» of A|«. He had been in industrial schools, and had escaped from the school at Burnharo in ■ Juno last. He had also bw charged at < Stratford and Auckland fiw various offences, and ordered to coini op for sentence when called on. It WW a pity prisoner would ndt retrieve himself by serving his country, and perhaps being unfortunate enough to - die fyr hii country. He did not Intend to give prisoner a fixed term Of imprf*oritnent, but would leave that to the discretion of the Prisons Board. He aotfojdingly sentenced prisoner to a period of reformative treatment at New Plymouth, not exceeding three years.