SUPREME COURTS.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 335, 1 September 1898, Page 2

SUPREME COURTS.

THE Criminal sittings were opened at Auckland on Tuesday, before Mr Justice Co'iolly. Jessie Kennedy pleaded guilty to having stolen sundry articles of jewellery from a dwelling-house. Sentence deferred till following day. John Kain, alias John Driver, pleaded guilty to having stolen from the s.s. Invincible, last December, a watch and chain.—Six months with hard labour.

Herbert Tonks, a youth, pleaded guilty to stealing from several dwellings of natives at Waiinakau. Prisoner had been previously convicted of theft, and was sentenced to 18 months with hard labour.

William Clarke, alias Powdrell, pleaded guilty to stealing a mare at Warahoe.— Remanded for report of probation officer.

George Frederick Porter pleaded guilty to having forged and uttered a cheque.— Admitted to probation for 12 months, and ordered to make good the £3 10s received and pay costs of prosecution.

John Hurley admitted having attempted to commit suicide. Mr Cooper, who appeared for prisoner, asked that he should be released on his own recognisances.—This was granted in the sum of £25, prisoner to come up for sentence when called upon. Frederick Gosset, a half caste, pleaded guilty to having stolen the oil yacht Queen of Beauty. The Probation Officer said prisoner had been in his charge for some time. He was peculiar at times, but he was inclined to think his conduct was assumed. Sentenced to' two years with hard labour.

Two youths, named Robert Walker and Henry Barrett Rose, were jointly charged with having broken and entered a residence in Newton and stoleu a quantity of jewellery. Walker confessed his guilt and Rose pleaded not guilty, but was found so by the jury. Rose was sentenced to four years and Walker to six months.

(BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION") Wellington, Last Night.

The case against the woman, Sarah Jones, ill which a true bill was btought in on the charge of deserting her children, was again mentioned in the Supreme Court to-day. Mr Jellicoc said he intended, when the case cams on, to move to quash the indictment. The Crown Prosecutor admitted that it was very doubtful whether the Court had jurisdiction under the Criminal Code Act, and the Chief Justice expressed the opinion that the point should be reserved for the Court of Appeal. The case was allowed to stand over. Stepen Walsh and William Aldridgc, who were concerned in the Masterton jewellery robbery, were sentenced to four years and three years respectively. There were several previous convictions against them. DusEDIN, Last Night.

The hearing of the charge against William Bernard Cahill of the larceny of goods from Messrs Shields' pawn office, where he was employed, after lasting two days came to a conclusion to-day. The jury, after nearly two hours' retirement, returned s. unanimous verdict of not guilty, ami added that the proprietors of the pawnshop were to be censured for the very loose manner in which they allowed their business to be conducted. His Honor concurred and discharged the accused without a stain on his character, directing that the goods found in his possession should be returned to him.