SUPREME COURT.
WELLINGTON SESSIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In the Supreme' Court to-day, before the Chief Justice, Edward Rosenberg was charged with having counselled Cecil Robert Ellison to steal 175 hicycle tubes from the Dunlop Rubber Company, thus becoming party to the theft, and also with having received the same goods knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, and prisoner was remanded'till Saturday for sentence, bail b«ng allowed. Eight wharf laborers, Alfred Nelson, Donald McPherson, Anton Olsen, John Hindle, William Young, Fred, Linilsay; James Wright, BacW*onse,,^nd Henry Douglas, were charged with (1) stealing a 221b. caddy of Havelock tobacco, valued at £0 Is, from the Union Company's steamer Moana • (2)"< receiving the same knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. All t,he accused pleaded not guilty. Nelson, Wright and Douglas were acquitted. Olsen, Hindle and Backhouse were found guilty, and Young was found guilty on 4he second count Sentence was deferred till Saturday morning.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 125, 17 November 1911, Page 5
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169SUPREME COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 125, 17 November 1911, Page 5
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