SUPREME COURT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1034, 15 August 1911, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

CHRISTCHURCH CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

By Telegraph — Press Association

GrIRISTCHURCH, Last Night

The Supreme Court criminal s-itt- ; ings opened 'to-day. Robert Mea- i clem, .Edward Stewart Agnenv, and j Samuel Ross, three Burnham. absconders, -were presented for sentence for the. theft of a motor car, t'he property of Dr Browne. Ross i was.sent Iback to the Burnham Industrial School, and the other two j were sentenced to three years' reformatory , treatment. Herbert Charles Wilkin s, charged with the theft of money, was admitted to probation for six months, and ordered to pay a fine of £lO. Cecil Herbert Jeffries, a. youth who was already on probation for three years, was presented for having .broken the ■terras of his probation. His Honour said that the accused had shown himself unworthy of probation, and would liave to ibe dealt with more ■severely. He would be sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and at the expiration of that sentence would (be detained for twelve months for reformatory treatment. ', Alexander William Ironsides (Mr Donnelly) guilty to the theft of £7OO, the property- of the Public

| Trustee. Mr Donnelly said the accused, who \va.s only 23 years of age, ! had unfortunately become associated with thos.e whose means, were more than his own, and in his extravagance had fallen. Accused had paid hack all the money which had been in his possession. He had also transferred iback an equity in his house to it-he Public Trustee. He had friend's 'who ■were prepared to find work for him on a station in the country as soon as his sentence should have expired. The Crown Prosecutor said .that 'the amount,unrecovered was over £-100. Be could see mo extenuation whatever for the I offence. The defalcations had taken place over a "period of eighteen months, and on one occasion accused had destroyed all the records of His defalcation, and the fact had only been, discovered by the parties con- . cerned making complaints to the Public Trustee. 'His Honour said

I that accused stood convicted of a I gross offence. His age was the only thing in ihis favour. He would be sentenced, to imprisonment, with .hard labour, for eighteen, months. J Archie Parker was acquitted on a i charge of having had carnal JcnowI ledge of ; a girl under isixteen years jof age. Mary Brown was charged jj that on April 17th she had disposed of the dead body of her child with intent to conceal the (fact that she had been delivered of a'child. The case for the prosecution was that the prisoner .had admitted, having been delivered of a male child, which was dead. She had thrown it into found, in the Avon about that time. It might not 'have ibeen the child of the accused, but that did not alter the fact that concealment of birth had taken place. The accused was convicted, l>ut sentence was deferred pending decision of the Court of Appeal of certain law points raised. , f

WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Tdearanh~"Press Association. WELLINGTON", Last Night. At the Supreme t/ourt to-day, Arthur Vincent Evans pleaded guilty to eight charges of 'wilfully damaging plate glass windows by scratching them 'with;a. diamond ring, and was remanded till 'Wednesday. William John ALcLean, a young anarried man, and Charles' Leonard . Brown (a mere youth) pleaded guilty to having into a, hotel and butcher's shop, at Patiiatua, and stealing goods and money. They were admitted to four years' probation, •and 'Ordered to pay £7 2s 6d, the value of the goods not restored, and £5 each towards the cost of the prosecution. Julius Jorgensen, a seaman from the barque Duncrag, pleaded not guilty to assaulting Charles Swanson, and causing him actual ibodily harm. The jury returned a. verdict of guilty, and accused Was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.