SUPREME COURT.
Per Press Association. Auckland, February 17. Richard John Strong for assault with criminal intent was sentenced to three years’ hard labour. Thomas Morgan for horse-stealing at Rotorua got two years concurrent with his present sentence. Dunedin, February 17. Judge Williams, in opening "the criminal sittings, referred to the light calendar, there being only three cases, none of a serious character. No bill was found in the case against David McOonnochie charged with sending a theratening letter, ‘owing to Bruhns, tne principal witness for the prosecution, failing to appear. Auckland, February 16. Sarah Eliza Skelton was at the Supreme Court yesterday sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for performing an illegal operation. Thomas Henry Parker, for obscene language and“assaulting a constable, was sentenced to six mouths’ imprisonment.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9076, 17 February 1908, Page 8
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127SUPREME COURT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9076, 17 February 1908, Page 8
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