CRIME IN OTAGO.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1921, Page 5

CRIME IN OTAGO.

SUPREME COURT OASES. RECORD IN QUICK WORK. By Telegraph —Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Sim. presiding, put through an extraordinary amount of business in something like record time. All prisoners for trial, with one ex ception, pleacfed guilty, this exception being Alfred Stephen Archer, who, though he pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud, pleaded not guilty to two others. In the latter case, the Crown Prosecutor offered no evidence, and the jury returned a formal verdict of not guilty. Thos. Arthur Taylor was admitted to three years’ probation for breaking and entering. John Walter Baxter was admitted to three years’ probation for breaking, entering, and theft. Geo. Alexander Magorion, for a similar series of offences, was similarly dealt with. For the theft of postal packets, Wm. Thos. Pickering was released on three years’ probation. For theft from a railway train Edward Fleming was given three years’ probation, and for perjury to the Official Assignee Louis Gleesoft was given three years’ probation under stringent conditions and ordered to pay £22 4s 4d costs within a month, and. £lOO to his creditors within a year. Michael and Annie for asassaulting Michael John, were .fined £lO each, and ordered to pay £l5 costs. Alfred Stephen Archer, for fraud in connection with military funerals, was fined £5.