SUPREME COURT.
Auckland, June 10. Joseph Hood was sentenced to four years’ penal servitude for larceny of jewellery, and John Thomas Watts to two years’ penal servitude for burglary at Otahuhu. The TeAroha wounding case, in which John Wood was charged with wounding Frederick Hyde, was withdrawn. E. H. Jagger was charged with having obtained £lO from T. Slater by false pretences. This is the case in which it is allegen prisoner obtained sums of money by showing what purported to be a copy of a cable message from London, intimating that he had come into possession of a fortune of over £12,000, and the accusation was that no such message bad been received. The evidence, however, was not sufficient, and Jagger was acquitted. Other charges are to be preferred against him. June 11. In the case of Louis Paget, accused of murdering the woman. Mary Ann Wilson at Archill, the Grand. Jury at the Supreme Court threw out the bill, but returned a true bill against the prisoner on a charge of manslaughter. James Wilkinson was found guilty of stealing five books from the Public Library. Sentence was deferred, as four other, charges of a similar character are to be brought against him.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1903, 13 June 1889, Page 4
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204SUPREME COURT. Temuka Leader, Issue 1903, 13 June 1889, Page 4
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