SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1919, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

I WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, May 0. Charles Clifford Jenkins, formerly a well known jockey, who had pleaded guilty to breaking, entering, and theft at Bulls, came up for sentence to-day. The Chief Justice said prisoner was suffering from alcoholic poisoning, and prdered him to be confined at Rotoroa for eighteen months. Meanwhile, he would have to remain in hospital. Eric Howell and Ernest Braier, two boys who admitted having placed gates across the railway line at Paparparaumu, were ordered to pay costs and come up for fentence when called upon, on condition that they went to work in the country, TIMARU SESSIONS. Timaru, Last Night. At the Supreme Court Sessions, his Honor Mr. Justice Herdman congratulated the Grand Jury on the lightness of the calendar. G. T. Henderson, a returned soldier, who had pleaded guilty to the theft of rugs and wraps, valued at £ls, from three vehicles in a yard on market day, and had been previously convicted of theft, was sentenced to twelve months' reformatory treatment. A. W. Stott, who had pleaded guilty to stealing £25 when cashier for the N.M. and A. Company, Waimate, was sentenced to twelve months' probation. Evelyn E. Preeke and Annie Wareing, both married women and separated from their husbands, were charged with making false declarations in registering the birth of illegitimates, that their husbands were the fathers. The fir:-t-named pleaded guilty, and was fined C;i. The second, who denied giving false information, was found guilty, and sentence was deferred. Henry Puron. a young Maori, who was found stealing a chi»nwi for £2B 15s, given him in a letter to post, was sentenced to two years' reformatory treatment. The principal case, one of cattle sealing, against a man and his wife, will be taken to-morrow. :