SUPREME COURT

Taranaki Daily News, 26 May 1920, Page 5

SUPREME COURT

TIMARU SESSIONS. lly Telegraph.—Tress Association. Timaru, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, the Grand •Jury returned trim bills in all three cases submitted to them. Two men who had pleaded guilty were dealt with. Alex. Charles MacKcnzie, who had defrauded his emplayer, a master baker, of £7O, received for bread delivered, and whilst under remand for sentence in that case had stolen a man's post office savings bank book and forged a withdrawal order for t-'M. to; sentenced to reformative treatment up to five year? Edward Ellis, steward on the s.s. Corinthic, was charged with stealing an overcoat, from the shop of ,T. Craigic when the steamer was in Timaru. He was acquitted, the only evidence against him being (hat the coat was found in his bunk at Wellington, and he denied all knowledge, nf it. Two other members of the same crew, L. L. Valentine and V. L ICllis, -rsye charged with thefts of an overcoat and door-mat. The latter was found at the Customhouse, which was broken into on the name night. The jury disagreed and a new trial will be held. The trial in connection with the Chinese fruit shop raids will come on in the morning.