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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3160, 11 August 1917, Page 7

The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, yesterday dealt with the case of William Scholes, convicted on charges of forging and uttering and false pretences. His Honour said he had come to the conclusion that in view of the illness of prisoner's wife, the' best thing he could no was to defer sentence until September 21. If in the meantime prisouer got employment', conducted himself well, and looked after his wife and child, no sentence would be passed on him; otherwise Scholes would have to go to gaol. There was little doubt that poverty had driven him to tho foolish expedient of issuing a valueless cheque, but if he had been a careful man there would have been no need for him to' be in such an impoverished condition. ""'I don't see why prisoners should not always bo permitted to sit," said Mr. Justice Hosting yesterday, when asked whether a prisoner might havo a seat. "In some of the States of America," continued His Honour, "I know they have chairs. 1 "It is" Tattier'-a-' Ux upon a man. to have to 'stand' all day n he is not accustomed to it." .. . . (The cable news in thin issue accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in that Journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of "The Times.")