SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10237, 3 July 1883, Page 2

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

. ;. ',;:■■■ '.-. ♦ ■ ''• "' (PEB. UNITED PBESS 'ASSOCTATION,) ' . Wellington, July 2. Tbe Supreme . Court opened, .juthis morning. There was nothing, special in Judge Richmond's charge to, the Grand Jury. ',,'. Pore,, for false , pretenoes, was acquitted." lathe seven cases brought before the, Court to-day only one coifriO" tion was obtained. - In the 'other, cases the Grand Jury found no true bills or ,the common jury acquitted the a'qeifted. The prisoner j. sentenced" wa's"' ; G(eqrge •McKay, forgery,- two yedrs". : ,',']?our other prisoners have yet to be tried. Christohuech, July 2. At the ■ Supreme ' Harry Jackson; "for ■' shooting ■ at.' John ■ Deana, was'sehtenCed to 'fourteen years' penal servitude. 'James Hennery, for horse |Btealing, !l s%ntenee'.'aefeipred.- "True' bills were retutiißd; 'against .Francis : ,B,fjP. Kiggs^' for, larceny, and, Han-jet ,i).6yrey, fwr arson.' . Charles Edward ;Dudiey, embezzlement}' was, throwa 'out.. by : ;the Gfrau^VTury.',,. ..,.,.,,,, .■..,.;-,'.,,',! ,•„„■ v. A j •'.'.: ". :. t . J'.PUNKDIHi July 2. At the criminal session of the Supreme Oourt : tp-day.Mr. Justice Williams in bis charge merely .dealt 'withi-the-basegf-bn the calendar..- •' Robert -'Wardrop, for maliciously ywounding ; John Thompson at Vovp Chalniors,- was ■"sentenced to; one hour's imprisonment on account of his prdWousi good : charaoter, 'arid haying ibeen tbre^e" H>ontbs in .' gaol.. " 'George Fleming, aged 'eighteen years! was* sentenced to- nine' mohtbs for stealing from ! a' dwelling.j 'The, most impoitant case, in which no ; frue bill was found, was Gecrge'ClarJt;,for' embezzlement of, the Vincent , County* funds.,, -. This is:. the individual who was recently brought back from Melbourne/ A true billsras fomid "against Frederick Wain and his wife for manslaughter. The principal cases dealt with to-daywere.the,pharge "of-'escaping from gaol against Chailes Vickers, aud of forgery against John Joues. Vickers pleaded that, having a wife and family in Dunodiu, he was harassed by the knowledge of their d°stitute circuui stances, and, the warder not looking, he simply walke'd-'awW. The gaoler gare liim a.good charaofef, and his Honor sentenced him to twelve months' hard labour. John Jon^bi' 62 years Void, pleaded guilty to .-, three charges -of forgery. The prisoner was sufferingfrona paralysis, and the Crown Prosecutor said that very likely he had committed the offence, in order , to -get into gaol, where he had been before for perjury, larceny, and forgery. Heiwos sentenced to three years. ,' > i:t