DUNEDIN SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8148, 24 May 1906, Page 5

DUNEDIN SUPREME COURT.

DUNEDIN, May 23. > At the Sapreme Court, to-day, George Stafford Mathieson, a railway porter, was charged with breaking and entering and stealing tobaooo and cigarettes. After knook-' ing off work accused attended a sooial, where he had [some drink, andjabout 3.30 o'clock in the morning he made his way by a back entrance into a. shop. The jury found prisoner guilty of breaking and entering, but believed he had blundered into the place through a drunken mistake, and had no intention of committing the crime. Justice Cooper said he oonld take that as a verdict of simple larceny. The foreman of the jury said they would like the provisions of the First Offenders' Probation Act applied. Prisoner was remanded. William Walquist was charged with assault and robbery. It was alleged that having oome from Ashburton with William Maving they knocked about together in the evening, the latter being eventually taken out to Ocean Beach, and severely assnulted and robbed of 18s. The jury, after four hours' retirement, were unable to agree, and a new trial will be held on the Judge's return from the Timaru sessions.