SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1922, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND SESSIONS. i PRISONERS SENTENCED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At the Supreme Court Peter Colombo, on two charges of false pretences, was sentenced to twelve months in gaol, and was again declared an habitual criminal. The prisoner had previously been twice declared an habitual criminal and released on probationary license. Henry G. Arnold, for breaking and entering and theft, was sentenced to six months, and Ronald Watts, who admitted selling his employer’s stock and making away with the proceeds while employed as a farm manager, was admitted to probation for two years, and was ordered to make such restitution as the probation officer directs. Charles Gumby Pearce, a former Post and Telegraph employee, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for false pretences by presenting bogus accounts for telephone repairs. A year’s imprisonment was imposed on Rae Solomon, a Maori, for the theft of a horse, saddle and bridle at Kawakawa. NEW TRIAL GRANTED. By Telegraph. —l*re«<> Association Auckland, Feb. 22.. The Supreme Court, in the case against Thomas Fearon, charged with the theft of money from Alfred M'Guire at the Soldiers’ Club, rejected cbunsel's appeal against the treatment of the witness as hostile, but granted leave to move for a new trial on the ground that the verdict of guilty was against the weight of evidence.