SUPREME COURT.
A HEAVY LIST. £Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 24. The Supreme Court criminal sessions were opened this morning. Mr. Justice Edwards in his charge to the gand jurj regretted that no less than 42 offences were on the calender, involving charts against a, much Inwr -".hereof part° tli’ey wore ordinary charges ot theft, ’housebreaking, false pretences, forgery, etc. The number was lai„e and formed a sorry record of an ni--01 The Grand" 1 Jux-y returned true hills ’XmofeSfy, breaking and. entering Lnl theft at Dargaville receive 1 eighteen months’ imprisonment Vd Ram. Drinnie, alias Harris, and ThonUo Fannin o ' were convicted of stealing a in a railway carriage on the 5 Main Trunk express whilst the woman was asleep. Drinnie was sentencedAo'three years’ and Fanning to two and a. half years’ imprisonment. A youn" man named Carl Francis WalL r lately a clerk in the employ of the Hmi J A. Tole, Crown Solicitor, pleaded guilty to 25 charges of forging Ins employer's signature, involving a total sum of £416, and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2510, 25 May 1909, Page 5
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179SUPREME COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2510, 25 May 1909, Page 5
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