AUCKLAND
This day.
The Quarter Sessions. At the Supreme Court this morning Samuel Brown, an old settler and merchant, was arraigned on several charges of larceny and burglary. The only evidence for the defence was witnesses to character, which included the Hon Mr Whitaker, the Hon Mr Dignan, and Mr Clark (Mayor), who had known prisoner for thirty and forty years. The Judge said it was a very extraordinary case. The sentence ia not yet given. Warner was sentenced to two years for larceny as a bailee. Sutherland, for breaking and entering, received two years. In the case of Bell, station master of 1 Ohaupo, for embezzlement, Counsel for the defence pleaded that the man had been drunk. Sentenced to three years. Later. In Brown's case the Judge said he had known similar cases of kleptomania. It was a well known fact in physiology, that there were such forms of derangement. In the face of such evidence of leading citizens he did not think it necessary to commit to gaol. The prisoner would be liberated on two bonds for £300 each. These were enterrdinto by David Nathan and Mr Boy lan. Purcell, for forgery in connection with bankruptcy, sentenced to two years.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3830, 7 April 1881, Page 2
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202AUCKLAND Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3830, 7 April 1881, Page 2
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