SUPREME COURT.
SITTINGS AT NAPIER. [Pek Pit ess Association.] NAPIER, Juno 22. The Supreme Court sessions openec with a comparatively light calendar only nine prisoners being interested The most serious case is that of alio gee murder against John Cline and Alict Maud Shepherd in connection with tin Woodville tragedy. Mr. Justice Chap man congratulated the district on tin marked evidence of decrease of crime True bills were returned in the allegec murder charge, and the trial was fixec for Tuesday next. Owen Kelly, aged 30, was found gml ty of uttering gilded sixpences as hal sovereigns, and sentence was deferred. Robert Ralfs Caulton, aged 22, plead ed guilty to charges of indecent expo sure and indecent assault on boys a: Hastings, and was remanded for een tence. Tudor Nugent Baker pleaded guilt: to failing to keep proper, books of accounts prior to his bankruptcy and sen tence was deferred. Frank Arnold, a man of middle age for the theft of a gold watch at Hast ings. was sentenced to four months imprisonment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2535, 23 June 1909, Page 6
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173SUPREME COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2535, 23 June 1909, Page 6
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