SUPREME COURT.
TIMARU SESSIONS.
Per Press Association. Timaru, August .SO
At the Supreme Court to-day Edwin James Steel, an old offender, was sen-: tenced to three years' imprisonment for three cases of theft, at Christchureh and Makikhi. He asked to be let off, and allowed to go the front, but Judge Deimiston said that he might have done so in the old days, but not now. In a case of conspiracy to defraud a bookmaker, by delaying a telegram, E. 0. McMurtie, telegraphist at Waimate, and Mrs Alice Moore, pleaded .guilty. The woman was ordered 1" come up for sentence when called on. and the man was admitted to probation for two years. A case of slieeps tea ling against James Punnett. fanner, of Cattle Valley. Kairlie, was commenced, but is not completed. Dunnett assisted a neighbor, Albert Chapman, who knew little about sheep. ■and is charged with stealing eight of them.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 3
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152SUPREME COURT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 31 August 1915, Page 3
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