SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10129, 31 August 1898, Page 6

SUPREME COURT TRIALS.

(press association. tkt.kgrams.) WELLINGTON, August 30. In the Supreme Court this morning, the Chief Justice, in sentencing Frederick Parsloe to three years' imprisonment for forging and uttering, made some severe strictures upon the indiscriminate way in which tradespeople gave blank cheques to, and cashed cheques for, . persons entirely unknown to them. When tradespeople found that they were victimised through their own carelessness they appealed to the law and the country was put to a heavy expense. He had spoken frequently on this matter, and he could not understand why the Banks did not take some action. He almost felt inclined to disallow the expenses of persons who thus assisted people to commit crimes. William Aldridge, found guilty of breaking into a jeweller's shop at Alasterton and stealing £100 worth of watches and jewellery, was remanded for sentence. Henry Weaver, who was charged with stealing the racehorse Osborne from training stables at the Lower Hutt was acquitted, but the jury added a rider that Weaver should be examined as to his sanity. DUNEDIN, August 30. The trial of William Bernhard Cahill, for the larceny of a quantity of jewellery whilst employed as manager of the Ballarat pawnshop, will last the whole day.