RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT. RIVERTON.
(Before D. Lawlor and H. Nurse, Esqrs.) Frederick Stanley was charged with larceny. It appeared that the prosecutor, James Bower, met the prisoner Stanley at a hut on-Beachwood station, and believing him to be hard up gave him five shillings from his coat pocket, which was ' hanging up in the hut, that in the evening l he discovered that the pocket-book from ■which he had taken the five shillings had been tampered with, and a five pound note had been abstracted. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Invercargill gaol.
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 222, 28 February 1866, Page 3
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100RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT. RIVERTON. Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 222, 28 February 1866, Page 3
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