SUPREME COURT
TIMARU CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Per United Press Association.) TIMARU, May 25. The Supreme Court opened before Mr Justice Sim. Alexander Charles McKenzie for theft of £73 and forging and uttering a savings bank withdrawal slip for £4O, was sentenced to five years’ reformative treatment.
Albert Charles Thomas Lamb was charged with breaking prison at Timaru. The proceedings were discontinued, the Judge ruling that the Court had no jurisdiction, as Lamb was acquitted on the charge upon which hs was then awaiting trial. Edward Ellis, a steward on the s.s. Corinthie, charged with stealing an overcoat from the shop of J. Craigie when the steamer was in Timaru, was acquitted, the only evidence against him being that a coat was found in his bunk at Wellington and ha denied all knowledge of it.
Two other members of the same crew, L. L. Valentine and V. W. L. Ellis, were charged with thefts of overcoat and a doormat. .The latter was found at the Customhouse, which had been broken into on the same night. The jury disagreed, and a new trial will be held.
The Chinese fruit shop raid case will come on in the morning.
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Southland Times, Issue 18831, 26 May 1920, Page 5
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195SUPREME COURT Southland Times, Issue 18831, 26 May 1920, Page 5
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