SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 122, 16 February 1921, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

SENTENCES IN DUNEDIN

Hr Telocranh—Prens An«oci»tton.

Dunedin, February 14. To-day the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Sim presiding, put through an extraordinary amount of. business in something like' record time, as all-the prisoners for trial, with one exception, pleaded guilty. The exception was Alfred Stephen’ Archer, who, though ho pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud, pleaded not guilty to two others. In the latter case the Crown offered no evidence, and the jury returned .a formal verdict of not. guilty. Thomas Arthur Taylor was admitted to three years’ probation for breaking (and entering. John Walter Baxter was admitted to three years’ probation for breaking, entering, and theft. George Alexander Magorion, for a similar series of offences was similarly dealt with. For theft of postal packets, William Thomas Pickering was released on three years probation. For theft from a railway train Edward Fleming was given three years’ probation. For perjury to the Official Assignee, Louis _ Gleeson was mven three years’ probation under stringent conditions and was ordered to pay 4d coats within a. month and 4:100 to his creditors within a year. Michael and Annie Lahood, for as.ault ign Michael John, were fined £lO each and ordered to pay £la costs. Allied Stephen Archer, for fraud in connection with military funerals, was fined £5. John James Stubley, I for breaking entering, and theft, camo up’ for sentence. He was ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for seven years. Philip John Edwards Hancock and Edwin Austin Irvin,, for breaking, entering and theft, were ordered to be detained for reformative treatment for five years.

PALMERSTON SITTINGS. By Talegraph—PrMi Annotation. Palmerston North, February 15. In the Supreme Court to-day, Sir John Salmond presiding, John Edward Sullivan was sentenced to three months imprisonment for forgery at Foxton James Thomas Barrett, who bad pleaded guilty to for-ing a cheque, ciune up for sentence.” Counsel applied for probation, and accused was remanded till Thursday for the probation officer’s report. True bills were returned by the grand jury in all the other cases.