SUPREME COURT
’ TIMARU SESSIONS By Telegraph.— Association. Tlmaru, August 2. At the Supreme Court to-day, Joseph William Shields, ou a charge of assaulting Francis Powell, and causing bodily injury, was fined £2O or three months’ imprisonment. Frank IT. Fowler, charged with the theft of a car valued at £l9O, was sentenced to three years’ reformative treatment. The Court has been occupied for three days hearing charges against Bernard L. Blackwell and Ernest G. McCunn, of breaking and entering two farm houses with intent to commit a crime; also with being found by night on premises unlawfully. The evidence showed that the men had been drinking and on refusing to leave the houses bad been fired at with a shotgun by an ,18-year-old boy, as a result of which both were sent to hospital. McCunn was found not guilty and Blackwell guilty of- being, unlawfuly, on premises. Sentence was deferred.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 260, 3 August 1928, Page 18
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