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Wellington, Wednesday. The Supreme Court criminal session opened this morning before Justice Richmond. His Honor's charge to the grand jury merely referred to cases on the list: seven charges againt seven prisoners, which were of the ordinary description. . True bills were returned against Mary Smith on a charge of forgery, and prisoner pleaded guilty. On an application by counsel to have the prisoner placed under the provisions of the Probation Act, Judge Richmond said the offence was of a most serious nature. He had never applied the Act to cases of forgery because the Act contemplated police surveillance, and he did not think it possible the police could exercise surveillance over persons given to that class of crime. As in this case there were, however, circumstances favorable to the prisoner, and as he was not disposed to deal hurriedly with the case, he ordered the prisoner to be brought up again to-morrow morning. .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3170, 3 April 1889, Page 2
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155Supreme Court. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3170, 3 April 1889, Page 2
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