SUPREME COURT.
FORGING A WILL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Nov. 2. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day. William Charles Pitches, Hugh McAllister, and William White were charged with forging a document at Ophir purporting to be the will of George Henry Reaper. They pleaded guilty. The Judge stated that Pitches was really responsible for what was done. He was fined £2OO, and the other two were ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. Ernest James Taylor, who had pleaded guilty in the lower court to a charge of false* pretences, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each of two charges, the sentences to be cumulative, and was also declared to be an habitual criminal.
WELLINGTON SESSION. Wellington, Nov. 2. In the Supreme Cou'rC Herbert John Mercer, a youth of 19 years, who was charged with breaking and entering and theft of a motor-car, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. He denied stealing tjie car; he simply tnnk it for a joy ride. Myra Hall pleaded not guilty to chan'es of theft and false pretences. She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1920, Page 7
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