SOUTHERN COURTS.
;**_ Telegraph—rress Association.) IXVERCAEGILL, Tuesday. The Supreme Court sat here to-day. Frank Hughes, who was found guilty o! breaking, entering, and theft, and who had a bad record, was declared to be an habitual criminal. Harry Cooper Douglas pleaded guilty to two charges of receiving stolen goods, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each charge, the (_nten<-es to be cumulative. Arthur H. F. Fetvn, for forging and uttering a cheque for £70. was ordered to undergo reformative treatment for a period not.exceeding five years. NAPIER, Tuesday. A Haotings solicitor, Francis Norton Thompson, was charged in the Supreme Court to-day with the theft of trust moneys, totalling £1780. from a client named Gotfried Petrowski. The jury disagreed, and a new trial was ordered for next session.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 205, 28 August 1918, Page 9
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