Wanganui Supreme Court.
| (united press association.) Wangakoi, Tuesday. At the Supreme Court tp-dav, the calendar consisted or six cases. The address to the Grand Jury by the Chief Justice stated that, with the exception of one charge of embezzlement against C.-F. Cross, the other cases were of a trifling character. In the embezzlement case; Mr Shaw, of Wellington, made an application that shcli Grand Jurors as were shareholders m the WahgnnHi Heads Railway Company should be debarred from sitting when the Jury considered the Cross case. His Honor at first was disinclined to allow this, but eventually it was arranged that four shareholders on the jury should retire when the > indictments were sen up t. True billls were returned m all tun cases. Thomas Fitzgerald tor , larceny was found guilty and sentenced to nine months. A. B. Vowles, who was last session found guilty of embezzlement of Government Life Association funds was brought up for sentence and received; six calendar months' hard labour. , -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1456, 16 September 1885, Page 2
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163Wanganui Supreme Court. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1456, 16 September 1885, Page 2
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