SUPREME COURT.
MASTERTON CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Bj TelrirraDh.—Special OorrcsDondcnt.l Masterton, March 19. Tho Supremo Court sessions opened hero to-day, before Mr. Justice Edwards, wiio concratulak'd tho Grand Jury upon the light criminal calendar, there being only two cases set down. In each of these true bills were returned. Arthur Boyd, a young man twenty years of age, pleaded guilty to forging and uttering a chorine for ,£lO. His Honour said he would take a lenient view of the, case, and fined tho accused .010, to bo paid in monthly instalments, in default twelve months' imprisonment. Horace Carter pleaded not guilty to a charge of having wrongfully converted to his own uso the proceeds of tho sale of goods for John Lincoln Murray, draper, for whom ho was traveller. The case was only partially heard when the Court adjourned until to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1393, 20 March 1912, Page 3
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