SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1919, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. \

By Telegraph.—Press Association. j Wellington, Nov. 3. !

The Chief Justice to-day sentenced f James M'Laughlin to six months' im- ' prisonment for making a false deelara- i tion to the Registrar of Marriages. His j Honor said prisoner's military record was bad, and he had been returned to New Zealand as a chronic V.D. patient. He hoped the parents of the girl, who was under 17, would take steps to have the marriage ttissolvod. The grand jury returned no bill in the case of Margaret Ethel Levy, charged with concealing the birth of a child. Cecilia Hunter was found guilty of r forging a military allotment warrant. The passing of sentence was deferred. Tn tho case of John Lister, charged with indecently assaulting a girl of eight years, the jury returned a. verdict of common assault. Sentence was deferred. OHRISTCHURCH SESSIONS. Ciristchurch, Nov. 3. In the Supreme Court, Marie Hill and Daniel Murray, alias Jackson, charged With the theft of £3O 10s from the proprietress of the Trocadero Hotel, were found guilty. Hill was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and Murray to two years, and to be treated as habitual criminals. Ail order was made for the restitution of £29 recovered from tfte prisoners. Albert Dickson Warden, on two charges of theft from dwellings, was found guilty. Prisoner, who is an escapee from Mt. Eden Goal, presented a revolver at Constable Williams, who arrested him at Sydenham on October 13. His Honor, after detailing prisoners record, addressed him as follows: "You seem to be an incorrigible rogue and menace to the public. I shall sentence you to five years' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent, and I shall declare you to be an habitual criminal." Frederick David Jones was found guilty of receiving stolen goods, sentence being deferred-