SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 6

SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

Palmerston North, May SI. At the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Cooper, George Murray, raiL way porter at Karioi, a small station font miles from Ohakune, was charged with the theft of iive i£s-notes, the property of E. P. Bailey, of Karori, Wellington. It was stated in evidence that the notes had been posted in a letter by Mrs. Boyde, of Ohakune, and delivered to another IJ. Bailey, a railway ganger, at Karioi. The latter gave the notes to accused to return ,to the Post Office. A Maori stated that accused gavo him four, notes for change of a five-pound note, and added a. sovereign some days after. The defence denied having had any transaction with this Maori., Accused stated that he put the letter on. the railway counter, and never saw it again. The jury found a .verdict of not guilty on. the ground of insufficient evidence.as to ivho took the notes. Albert Geo. Steward, tailor, of Peilding, bankrnpt, was acquitted on a charge of incurring debts without reasonable expectation of paying same. (U.v Telegraph—Press AssociationJ Timaru, May 31. At the Supreme Court this afternoon,. .Tohn Trerabath, of Ashburton, wa , charged with horse-stealing in January, 1909. He was found guilty and sentence*. to two years' hard labour. Prisoner ii at present serving a sentence of IS months for forgery. , . ■