SUPREME COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10273, 7 May 1919, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

CASES,AT TIMARU.:.SESSION&

Press Afi»"ciation. TIMARiU, May 6. At the Supremo Court. Mr Justice Her&man congratulated the Grand Jury on the lijthtness of the calendar. G. T. Henderson, a returned soldier, who had pleaded jruilty "to "heft of rugs and wraps, valuod at £ls, from three vehicles in a yard, on market, day, had been previously "convicted of theft, and was sentenced to"': 12" months' reformatory treatment. A. W. Stott, who had pleaded guilty of stealing £25 when cashier to the N.M.A. Company, iWaimate, was sentenced to 12 months' probation. Evelyn E. Preeke and Annie Warring, both married and women separated from *heir husbands, were charged with making false declarations in registering the birth of illegitimates to the effect that their husbands were the fathers. The. first-named pleaded guilty, and was fined £5, and the second, who denied giving false information, was found guilty and sentence was deferred. ; Henry Purou, a young Maori, was found guilty of stealing a cheque for £2B 15s given him in n letter to post, and sentenced to two years' reformatory treatment. The principal case—that of -cafctleatefding against a man and his wife — will be taken to-morrow.