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LAW COURTS.
TUESDAY, APRIL 1.
SUPREME COURT—CRIMINAL SITTINGS.
{Before His Honor the Chief J ustace and Juries. J
AUBAiomuarrs.
Iredericl: Dixon (34) pleaded guilty to three
charges of obtaining money by false pretences.
As tiie prisoner bad served a previous sentence
for felony lie was ordered to be imprisoned for
two years with hard labor on each charge, the
sentences to be concurrent.
Andrew Bichard Tompkins (26), on his own
admission of guilt, was ordered to be imprisoned
for'six calendar months' hard labor for obtaining
money by false pretences.
liobtrt Baldry, alias Trovers (49), pleaded
guilty to a charge of stealing a horse, cart, har
ness, and other articles, and was remanded for
sentence.
HOESBSTEAXING.
Alfred William Turner, alias William Boyle
(18), pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing
a horse, saddle, bridle, and pair of winkers,
value £34 10s., the property of Mark B. Wake,
at Hose worthy, on the 24th of January, 1879.
During the prosecutor's absence the horse
and other articles were token out of his
stables. On tbe following morning the pri
soner entered the prosecutor's horse, saddle, and
bridle, and another horse for sale at the Royal
Horse Bazaar, placing a reserve of £22 on the
prosecutor's horse, and £16 ou the other.
Learning that no sale would take place that
day, he removed the animals and entered then
lor sale at another bazaar on the following
Monday. When airested the prisoner state.l
that he bought the prosecutor's horse for £22,
and the saddle and bridle at £2 10s., from a
man in King William-street. Prisoner's landlady
stated that he was at tea on tbe evening pre
ceding tbe nigbt during which the hori* was
Ftolen.but she could not say if he remained at
her house during the night. A present inmate
of the gool stated that she saw the prisoner in
company with a man at the Shamrock Hotel a
few minutes before his arrest. The prisoner
stated that he bought the horses from this man,
and that it was impossible that he (prisoner)
could have gone to Bosewortby, stolen the
horses,and :cturutd to Adelaide during the on-j
eight. For the sake of convenience the pri
soner was then, before the case was sent to the
Jury, indicted for stealing onthe same occasion
a mare, value £25, and a saddle and bridle, value
£2 10s., the property of Charles Ferguson, from
the stabli s of the prosecutor in the previous
case. The evidence was identical in bo'.h
cases with regard to tbe stealing and enteriug
for sale, although the prisoner wiieu he sold the
mare for £12 stated that he bought her from a
tanner at Tarlec. When asked what work the
horses had been used to the prisoner said they
bad both been working in a reaping machine at
Two Wells. The Jury found the prisoner guilty
on both charges, and he was ordered to be im
prisoned for three years with hard labor on
each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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