SUPREME COURT.
SITTINGS AT CHRISTCHURCH
IPek Phess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH. August 20. At the Supreme Court sittings at Christchurch to-day. Frederick Marshall, ex-managing director of the United Farmers’ Coal Company, wa§ convicted of embezzlement, and sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. Frederick William Bennett and Geo. Nottingham were acquitted on a charge of assault and robbery. On a charge of burglary, to which they pleaded guilty, accused were sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and each declared to be habitual offenders. Hons Shaw was convicted of perjury, and sentence was deferred. SITTINGS AT WELLINGTON. ♦ WELLINGTON, August 20. At the Supreme Court to-day Harry Lee was found not guilty of breaking into the house of a Chinaman in Haining Street, Wellington, with intent to commit a crime. William Brown and Richard McCann were convicted of assaulting a man named Mahon and robbing him of £l. Brown was sentenced to 15 months’ and McCann to nine months’ imprisonment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 5
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153SUPREME COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 5
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