SUPREME COURT.
Wellington, April 5
Mary South, charged with forging a cheque in her employer's name, was admitted to probation for one year, on paying tho costs of the prosecution. Robert;Barker. for larceny, ditto, with tho addition of entering into recognisances, himself and another £IOO each. R. T. Price, for larceny, got two years' hard labour, His Honour refusing probation. William Cooke (with several aliases) for stealing a gold watch and chain from a bedroom at the Empire Hotel, was sentenced to six years' penal servitude. Prisoner had servod a sentence of two years for robbing the sample room of the same hotel, and had been previously convicted in Dunedin. Christchtjrch, April 5.
The criminal sittings were concluded this evening, when John Carter, Arthur Harrison, and Thomas Dinard were found guilty of conspiring to falsely accuse John Godfrey Cook of obtainiag £25 by false pretences at Kaikonra, and were sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labor each.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1876, 9 April 1889, Page 3
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158SUPREME COURT. Temuka Leader, Issue 1876, 9 April 1889, Page 3
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