SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Press Association. BLENHEIM, yesterday. In the Supremo Court no bills were ■ returned in the cases of Rex v. Wells Bios., alleged sheep-stealing, and liox v. George Gibson, alleged lend dummy ism.

DUNEDIN, yesterday. j Nicholas Tressider was brought before Judge Williams this morning charged with having broken : :be turns of prohibition through drink. Prisoner was before the Court at list sessions for breach of prohibition ti:rough drink and vas cautioned. He is now sent to goal for twelve months. Nicolas Tressider, who broke the conditions on which ho was admitted to probation, was to-day sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by Mr. Justice Williams. His Honor said the term must be sufficiently long to give the prisoner a chance of being weaned from his bad habit of drinking. •PALMERSTON, last night.

At the Supreme Court, before Mr, Justice Cooper, Patrick Brosnahan, found guilty of false pretences, was sentenced to six months. The case oi McKee, indecent assault, was adjourned till next sitting in September, owing to the principal witness., a little girl, contracting measles. Charles Duncan pleaded guilty to a! charge of assaulting and robbing F.. N Bevins of 16s Gd and a gold wateln at Daiinovirke on April sth and was: sentenced to 3 years. Luther, Martin and Murray, charged with being accomplices in the same offence, pleaded nob guilty. Evidence at considerable length was taken. Duncan in his evidence stated that accused took the money and ho took the watch and chain. He admitted that they were all under the influence of drink at the time. Accused Martin stiongly denied the offence, and said lie knew nothing about the robbery until next day when he was arrested. A verdict of not guilty was returned as there was not sufficient evidence.. AUCKLAND, last night.

This morning Mr. Justice Denniston in the Supreme Court presided over the re-trial of John Soloman, cl tailor, on a charge of wilfully poisoning a horse at Hamilton. The jury had disagreed when the accused ca?"

before the court a. fortnight ago. The 'evidence was to :;he effect that 8, gelding owned by Alfred John Searle, boarding-house keeper, became ill, and accused, who lived with Searle, went to a chemist for a drench. He inquired of the assistant how much arsenic it would take to knock over a horse, and the same night purchased 4oz of poison from another chemist. The horse died n oxt day, and it was found that death was due to arsenical poisoning. Accused’s explanation of his purchase was that he bought the arsenic to kill rats at Searle’s house. 110 was found guilty, and sentenced to nino months’ imprisonment.