Auckland Supreme Court.
AUCKLAND. February 10
At the Supreme Court, Alexander McTavish was charged with shooting with intent to do bodily harm to Herbert Sneter, second mate of the steamer Quitrt, and afctemptlug to commit suicide. Accused pleaded that he was so drunk that he had no knowledge of what he was doing. The jury found him not guilty. Three persons were subject t'o indeterminate sentences. They were John Lennon, found guilty of forgery and uttering, who admitted that he served three separate sentences from eighteen months to two years,; Zane Isidore Percy, who some time ago had a meteoric career as "Lord Northesk," and Charles Henry Cox, who was first sent to gaol ten years ago at nineteen years of age, and had since a brief period of liberty. •■ He was now found guilty of breaking and entering and theft, and was sentenced to thi:ee years' imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal. ; :
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9052, 11 February 1908, Page 5
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153Auckland Supreme Court. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9052, 11 February 1908, Page 5
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