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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8823, 27 May 1907, Page 2

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Press Association. Dunedin, May 27. The criminal sittings opened before Justice Williams this morning. True bills were returned in all cases. Nicholas Tressider, who had been, convicted for breaking and entering, was brought up for sentence in consequence of bis having broken his probation by drinking. Accused agreed to take out a prohibition order and was released. Charles Ogier Bayley, who had pleaded guilty to making false declaration as to his age when appliyng for a position in the railway service, was fined £5; George Stanley Sharp, who pleaded guilty to receiving cigarettes stolen from the warehouse of Rattray and Son in October last and to stealing cigarettes, was admitted to probation for 18 months. At the Juvenile Court a ten-year* old boy, who had been previously convicted of petty theft, was ordered to receive six strokes with the birch, to be inifictod by the police. He was charged with stealing loliles. Auckland, May 27.

In the Supreme Court Justice Donniston sentenced Frederick W. Barker, shopwalker, to four mouths’ imprisonment for theft of drapery from his employer.-- The judge characterised as absurd the prisoner’s plea in mitigation that he wanted money to redeem family jewels from the custody of a pawnbroker.