Supreme Court Sittings.
(Per i*ress Association}. Wellington, August 13. In the Supreme Court. Valentine Verne was found guilty of false pretences and remanded for sentence. The jury, in the case of the three youths named Paulurier, Brown, and Conroy, charged with breaking and entering were unable to agree, and the jury were locked up for the night. The charge against T. Schofield and P. Plaucke of breaking into the Greytown North Railway station is to be taken to-morrow, and after that Jewetfc aud Kennedy are to be charged with the murder of Louie Smith. This Day. Valentine Verne, with several aliases, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for obtaining money by false pretences from Christchurca and \Y e l~ lington residents. Chrisichurch, August 1%. At the Supreme Coitrt to-day Bolafc. Carlyle, housebreaking, was sentenced to two years' ; Jas. Reid was found not guilty of breaking into the Christchurch Museum and stealing gold specimens; Margaret Hurst, charged with malicious injury to property, was found guilty and was remanded on bail to the next criminal sittings, her husband undertaking to pay for the damage clone.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 38, 13 August 1895, Page 2
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184Supreme Court Sittings. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 38, 13 August 1895, Page 2
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