SUPREME COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3765, 26 February 1913, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

AUCKL AND SESSIONS. LPRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGR4.M] I AUCKLAND, Feb. 25. At the Supreme Court Edward McMahon, otherwise known as Edward P. MaeMahon, pleaded guilty to two charges of forgery and one of personating. He admitted the forging'of an application .to transfer an interest in an occupation license with right to purchase, and also admitted forging a document wh'di purported to be a statutory dec! iration under the Land Act, 1908. F*nally accused admitted personating Arthur McMahon with intent to obtain property. All the offences were committed between August and October, 1911. Mr. Selwyn Mays, upon accused pleading guilty to the three charges, said lie would withdraw three further charges—two of obtaining money by false pretences, and an additional one of forgery. His Honor sentenced accused to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard labor on each count, the sentences to bo concurrent. He added that his leniency was due to the circumstances of the case. Verdicts of not guilty were returned in the ease of Jdhn Robertson, charged with theft at the races; and in tile case of Francis Pilgrim, charged with indecent assault. Prisoners were discharged. NELSON SITTINGS. NELSON, Feb. 25. At the Supreme Court to-day an elderly man named Andrew Youngdal was acquitted on a charge of indecency. Tlie Nelson sessions have concluded.