SUPREME COURT
(By Telegraph — Frcss Association.) BLENHEIM, Last Night. At the Supreme Court, Charles Colin Walter Wilkan, aged 25, for stealing a cheque and forging an endorsement thereon, was found qujlty, with a recommendation to mercy on account of the prisoner not understanding the gravity of the offence. The Judge deferred sentence until the morning. The charge of conspiracy to defraud Scott and Martindale and Ross and Rrndshaw, by the use of telegrams, against Edwin John Walsh and John Vernon Binley, is proceeding. The telegraph operator altered the name of horses on telegrams endorsed by Walsh, to winning names, Walsh first telegraphing the winners from a racecourse.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10665, 21 June 1912, Page 5
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107SUPREME COURT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10665, 21 June 1912, Page 5
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