SUPREME COURT TRIALS. [By Telegraph.] [ UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, 18th Ootober.
At the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court to-day, John Gleeaon, a lad of 18, pleaded guilty to two charges of horsestealing, and got two years' hard labour ; and Albert Adams, for housebreaking*, one year. Thomas Lambett, for housebreaking, got four years' penal servitude. John Horn, for making a foke declaration concerning the name of the mother of a child, was fined JBIO. The Judge taid he thought thepr.soner had acted from motives of humanity; but the registry of births must be correctly kept. Charlea Fryatt, alias John D Lindley, for forging and uttering, was eentenced to tweive months' imprisonment; Frederiok Cooper, on a similar charge, four years' penal servitude; John Sharkey, breaking and entering, twelve months.
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Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 94, 19 October 1881, Page 2
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128SUPREME COURT TRIALS. [By Telegraph.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, 18th Ootober. Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 94, 19 October 1881, Page 2
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