SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2416, 3 February 1909, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKLAND OBI.MI.NTAL SITTINGS [Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Fob. 2. At the Supreme Court to-day Ernest Wilson, aged 23, was convicted on three charges of forgery and uttering at New Plymouth, and was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. John Marioribanks Steele, alias Richard Hammond, also convicted of forgery, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. Gustave Solomon, alias C. Thomas, who stele a. quantity of copper wire from the Tramway Company’s farm, received two years’ imprisonment. Harold Herbert Bressey, for theft from ids employer, was sentenced to two years. George 11. Ennis, a young -man, who bad previously been convicted at Napier in 1899 for Ibeft, was up on three charges of false pretences. extending between November 20 and December 5 last. A sentence of two years was passed. George Corson, alias Wilson, a young man. brought up for sentence on a charge of forgery and uttering, bad nothing to saw ami the Judge, remarking that the prisoner seemed to have been previously convicted of false pretences, sent him io gaol for 18 months. Henry .Mad do ok, convicted of breaking and entering, was sentenced to two years. Joseph Duff, charged with theft, received six months.