SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1922, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

PALMERSTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston North, May 9. The quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day. before Mr. Justice Hosking. There was only one criminal case, in which accused, a fisherman at Foxton, was charged with arson, breaking, entering, and theft. The, jury re-, turned, a true ‘bill, except on the charge of arson, in which case no bill was returned.

DUNEDIN SESSIONS. Dunedin, Last Night. The criminal sitting opened before Mr. Justice Sim. The following prisoners were sentenced: Edward Hedley Kitchener Hughes, an ex-postal officer, was admitted to probation for two years on a charge of theft. Up had not used the money taken, and had immediately repented. Edward Stephen Laws, alias Thomas Hunter, for forgery and uttering, was sentenced to one years imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal. Arthur Dominic Plunket, for breaking and entering, received a total of seven years. This was the one-armed man who escaped from prison with Aitchison and committed the offences charged during his long avoidance of capture. James Alexander Johnston, for bigamy, received three years’ imprisonment/ William Alfred Forbes, for, attempted rape, was given three years’ reformative treatment. Joseph 1' rances Ward, for arson, also received three years’’ reformative treatment.