SUPREME COURT.
Press Association. Lvttletou, February 4. Robert Isbell, alias Bell, alias Snell, alias Brown, has been remanded to Mastorton on February 6th on a charge of forgery of a cheque for £5 there. He was arrested here* last night. Timaru, February 4. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened here this morning before Mr Justice Denniston, who said that the district was to be congratulated ”on its comparative freedom from crime—there were only three cases and all from outside Timaru. . Henry Cox, a youth of 19,:was sentenced to three months for breach- of the Probation Act. Albert Sims for attempted rape near Ashburton, was sentenced to sis years, the Judge remarking that it would not be safe to allow such a man to mis with society. Accused is only 20 years of age and in 1904 he was convicted at Wellington for carnally knowing a girl of 10 years.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9066, 5 February 1908, Page 8
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151SUPREME COURT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9066, 5 February 1908, Page 8
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