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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8847, 25 June 1907, Page 2

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Press Association. Napier, June 2J. At tbe Supremo Court to-day the Grand Jury found true bills in all cases except that ot D. C. Thorley, charged with assault on a Maori. , G. M. Tracey was found guilty of forgery and uttering and talso pretence s, sentence being deferred. A fine of £5 was inflicted upon an old settler for having sot a spring gun in his orchard to prevent fruit stealing. It was the first case of the kind heard in tho colony. ... „ Four youths pleaded guilty to carnally knowing a female 14 years and IX months. All were remanded for sentence. William Charles Williams, an old offender, was convicted on six different charges of false pretences, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent, he being also declared to be an habitual criminal. Edward Mitchell Tracey was senfenced at the Supremo Court to seven , rears for arson and three years for house breaking. Tho prisoner, who is a young man, was referred to by Justice Cooper as a dangerous crimiual. Joseph Murtiu was found guilty of horse-stealing and got two ; years and was declared an habitual : criminal. Tho jury recommended the prisoner to mercy, but Martin’s i record showed sentences for theft, i vagrancy, horse-stealing, housebreaking etc., one of ton years, and > the Judge ignored the recommeudas tiou. , „„

Auckland, June 23. Justice Deunistdn granted decrees' nisi in the cases of Angus Finlaysou v. Margaret Fiulaysoii, with custody of the children, the respondent having disobeyed the order of thd Court for restitution of conjugal rights; George Thomas v. Ethel Hargreaves Thomas and Eriipst Albert Tardieu,' co-respondent, tor misconduct; in this case evidence was adduced that respondent arid co-respondent were living a few miles out of Gisborne; Edwin William Robinson v. Christiana B. Robinson and Frederick Conrad Fiddy, co-respondent, misconduct. - A young man named Robert Gibbs, alias" Gibbous, appeared at the Police Court to-day charged with having obtained from Auckland publicans £25 by moans of three valueless cheques. Gibbs, who was a hotelkeeper at Neavesviilo, near;,Thames, was brought back from Honolulu by a detective and was remanded for eight days on substantial bail.