SUPREME COURT.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1920, Page 1

SUPREME COURT.

A severe castigation

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WELLINGTON, Jan. 5. In the Supreme Court a man accused of robbery with violence, had to submit tO' a severe castigation from • u £ e Chapman, who said it was most dep ornble that a man who bad distinguished himself at the front by winning the M.C., should have behaved as the accused had. Accused had received £2OO deferred pay, and £lO7 gratuity, and in a short time the whole of it was gone in riotous living. Three licensed houses were mentioned as places amongst those where this money was spent. “I intend,” said the Judge, “to forward this evidence to the Minister of Justice. A man who has distinguished lnmselt has now disgraced himself in a manner that would disgrace the very swine themSelVGb ‘ TIMAR.U, Feb. 5.

At the Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Edwards, sentenced Fred feamue Simmis to a term of reformative treatment not exceeding live years, on a charge of having obtained a motoi cai valued at £4lO from AVm H. N. Amos, bv means of false pretences. U«e accused who served on Gallipoli and was invalided home in 1915, gave Amos a promissory note for £4lO payable to m Union Rank, Palmerston North, and it was returned marked, “no accoiin . He had represented to Amos that he had £BOO in the bank.