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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9384, 2 March 1909, Page 5

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Per Press Association Wapgauui, March 2. The Supreme Court sessions opened to-day before Justice Chapman, wl>o in his charge to the Grand Jury, said that it was very satisfactory to find that the total amount of serious crime was extremely small; in fact, it had become so small as to, be quite a remarkable feature of our time. He was extremely pleaded at the absence of crimes against women and children, which, a few years ago, seemed to have begun to form a feature of the calenders. Only three oases were presented to the Grand Jury, who found true bills in each case. One peculiar case was a charge against a person for advising two burglars how to use gelignite which had been intended to be used in breaking open a safe at the Economic here. Herbert Hodson, \ for stealing from, person, pleaded gnilty, and wag sentenced to three months’i^arisonment; Arthur H. guilty to theft of a was admitted to probiSbn for two years. William Scott got 18 months and Albert Way six months for breaking Wid entering at the Economic.