WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9115, 15 June 1908, Page 5

WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.

WELLINGTON, June 14. At the Supreme Court, yesterday, Frank Evans, aged 25 years, was sent to prison for four months for assaulting a barman in the Occidental Hotel by throwing a jug at him and causing him bodily harm. Richard Patrick Ham, 42 years of age, for stealing two horses at Pahiatua, was sentenced to six months imprisonment, and ordered to make , restitution of £5 19s. A young man named Michapl McGrath, who arrived in New Zealand six years ago, came up fo* sentence for forgery and uttering. Prisoner had been previously convicted for stealing a pair of boots. Accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and £8 2s 3d found on him is to be handed over to the person he defrau led. Frank Thos. Dart and Martin Petersen, two young men, were put forward for sentence for theft of a portmanteau at a hotel at Dannevirke. Mr Myers explained that Dart was at present out on probation. The Sergeant of Police at Napier reported that it was apparent Petersen was led into this by Dart, and not by any criminal instincts of his own. His Hrnor granted Petersen probation for twelve months. He proposed making a special condition to the order that nrisoner be kept from visiting public houses during the probation; also that he pay £5 towards the cost of the prosecution. Dart had had his chance. The offence was a shabby one, he would be sentenced to six months imprisonment.