COURT CASES

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 979, 27 August 1903, Page 1

COURT CASES

Per Press Association. Dunedin, last night. Edward John Heppelthwaite, for attempting to shoot himself with a revolver on July 29th, at the Police Court was today convicted and discharged. , At the Supreme Court Charles Robert Pipson, aged 17, for a nameless offenco, was sentenced to. six months'imprisonment, and the Judgo ordered him to be kept apart from the other {prisoners, but the crime was so bad that .be could not grant probation. Carlile Park, aged 40, for perjury, was sentenced to four months hard labor. John McClusky, aged 38, for assault on a woman, received a sentence of five years’ imprisonment. Invercargill, last night. An interesting case was before the Court to-day, when Roderick McLeod and his wife were charged with making false statements, whereby they obtained largerpen* sions than they were entitled to. When the pensions were granted in 1900 neither disclosed the possession of property, .subsequently they bought land, but said the money was their son’s, for whom they held it in trust. The Magistrate held that this was not established, and ordered both certificates to be cancelled, each to pay £lB of pension overdrawn, and to be debarred for 12 months from applying. No good purpose, he thought, would be served by imprisoning them.