SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON SESSIONS. JJy Ttlegruph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. E. J. Searle, who has been found guilty of forgery, came up for sentence to-day. Counsel made a strong plea for probation, and Mr. Justice Coopor remanded the case, until to-morrow in order to consider the probation oitieer'o report.
CHIUSTCHUKCH SESSIONS. Chi'istchurch, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, Ceorge Henry Barker was found guilty on five counts charging him with wilful and obscene exposure at different places at Fendalton, between September 24th and December Bth. Prisoner gave his age •s 23, and the Crown Prosecutor stated that all that was known about him was that he had been in the district for only a few mouths. Justice DennUton, in sentencing liini to twenty months' imprisonment, said that the offence of which prisoner had beeu found guilty was the result to some extent of something in the nature of a disease, but a disease which rendered prisoner a menace to socity, and it was his Honor's duty to i-e that prisoner was locked up for iume time in the hope that confinement and wholesome surroundings might effect change. The criminal sittings have closed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 15, 11 February 1909, Page 3
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192SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 15, 11 February 1909, Page 3
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