TIMARU CRIMINAL SESSIONS
(By TelcarftDli. —Pigeb Association.) Timaru, August 30. At the Supremo Court, Edwin James Steel,: au old offender, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for three cases of. theft ac Christchurch Makikihi. He asked to bo lot off and 1 allowed to go to Hie front, biit Judge Denniston said that might have ddno in old days, but not now. / ■In a case of conspiracy to defraud a. bookmaker by delaying a telegram, E. 0. ;M'Murtrio, telegraphist at W.iimato, and Mrs. Alice Mo'oro, pleaded guilty. The woman was ordered to conio up for sentence when called oiij and the man was- admitted. to probation for two years. The case of sheep stealing against James Dunnett, a farmer, of Cattle Valley, Fairlie, was commenced, and not completed. . Dunnett assisted a neighbour, Albert Chapman, -who knew little about sheep, ana-is charged with stealing eight of them.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2554, 31 August 1915, Page 9
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