Supreme Court Sittings.
(Per Press Association.) Chkistchurch, May 27. At the Supremo Court, James Whitehead pleaded guilty to three indictments of having stolen sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to £170, the funds of the Kaiapoi Working Men's Club. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently. John Turner Heard, lately city rate collector, was sentenced to two years, having stolen sums amounting to i'lo3. Douglas Burnside and Joseph William Wither were found guilty of criminal intimacy with a girl under the age of fifteen, and sentenced to twelve and eighteen months' imprisonment respectively. Wellington, This Day. The criminal calendar contains eighteen cases against twenty prisoners. Charges of murder and attempted murder appear in the list.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 277, 28 May 1895, Page 2
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124Supreme Court Sittings. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 277, 28 May 1895, Page 2
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