SUPREME COURT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7564, 7 May 1919, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

TIMARU 'SITTINGS

(Per Press Association.;

TIMARU, May 6

At the Supreme Court, before. Mr. Justice Herdman, G. T. Henderson, a returned soldier, who had pleaded guilty to thefts of rugs and wraps valued at £14 from three vehicles in a yard on market day, and who had been previously convicted of theft, was sentenced to twelve months' reformatory treatment.

A. W. Stott, who had pleaded guilty to stealing £26 when cashier for the N.M.A. Coy. at Waimate, was sentenced to 12 months' probation.

Evelyn E. Preeke and Annie Wareing (both married women separated from their husbands) were charged with making false declarations in registering births of illegitimates, that their husbands were the fathers. The first-named pleaded guilty and was fined £5. The second, who denied giving false information, was found guilty and sentence was de< ferred.

Henry Purou, a young Maori, found guilty of stealing a cheque for £28 ius., given him in a letter to post, was sentenced to two years' reformatory treatment.

The principal case of. cattle-steal-ing, against a man named May and his wife, will be taken to-morrow.