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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8892, 12 August 1907, Page 2

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Per Press Association

CiriiTSTcnuiiCH, August 12

The criminal sessions of tho Supreme Court opened to-day. Justice Chapman charged the Grand Jurv and said the cases were not such as to indicate any large amount of crime iu the district and. were not more numerous than usual and (hero was not a large proportion of serious offences than usual. On the whole he thought it fair subject for congratulation that over a scries of sessions there was not an increase of crime iu the district but rather a tendency to diminish. His Honor then went into details of the cases of importance to come before referring at some length to that of Stanton, the, unlicensed "healer", charged with manslaughter. WELLINGTON, August 12. Tho Supreme Court session opened to-day before Justice Cooper. In charging the Grand Jury his Honour'said he regretted there was a liirao amount of crime to bo investigated. Practically there wore twenty-one charges against nineteen persons. Cyril Oosrgove, alia:; Furlong, v;ho "had pleaded guilty to theft from a dwelling, was sentenced to fhr-?o years' imprisonment. Prisoner admitted having previously been convicted of larceny in Australia. Auckland, August 12. Alfred Michelly, who"" pleaded guiltv lo the theft of £4SOO from his cmplovi rs, Messrs Wingate, Burns and Co.. came before Justice Dcuniston this morning for sentence. The Judge said accused had deliberately for a series of years taken advantage of his position to rob his em; livers on an enormous scale, and to falsify iheir books, with which ho was entrusted. There were no mitigating circumstances. A sentence of seven years' imprisonment was imposed.