TIMARU SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 2

TIMARU SUPREME COURT.

■ ..CRIMINAL SESSIONS. By- Telegraph-Prets Association. Timaru, May 6. .At the Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Herdnian congratulated (lie grand jury on the lightness of the calendar. G. T. Henderson had pleaded guilty- fo thefts of rugs and wraps, valued at aid, from three vehicles in a yard on market dav. Henderson, who had been previously convicted of. theft ivas-sentenced to tivelvo months' reformatory treatment. A. W. Stott. who had pleaded guilty to stealing .£25 when cashier of:,the national Mortgage Agency Company at Wannate, was sentenced to oven v. months'probation. Evelyn E. I'reeko and Annie \Y arcing, both married women .separated nom their husbands, wero charged, with makiu«; false declarations in registering ute birth of illegitimnto children, of whom tbev 6tatod their husbands jvero the I fa\Uts\ Tho first-named pleaded guilty, and was fined We ot ! ie . r !lcc, !? cd ' who denied giving false information, was found guilty, and sentence was deHenry Purou, a young Maori, found guilty'of stealing a cheque for .£2B 155., given him in a letter to post, wus sentenced to two years' reformatory trcatlnimt. ~ A- « The principal case, in which charges or cattlMtcaling arc laid against a man ana his wife, will bo taken to-morrow.