SUPREME COURT SENTENCES

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 87, 15 April 1901, Page 5

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES

Several persons who had pleaded Guilty at the Magistrate's Court were brought before the Chief Justice for sentence this morning. In the case of John Haughton, whose offence waa the forgery of orders for books and Scripture cardsj Mr. Wilford appealed for the prisoner. The Rev. T. F. Jones, who had knewn accused for some time, sai& Haughton was not hard up, and his present position appeared to •be owing to a craze. Mr. Wilford admitted that the accused's past record wa3 a not a good one, but asked the 'Court to *be as lenient as possible. That there \<us a rift in, the accused's brain was evident I 'from the fact that the books he had secur1 cd were not of much vaiue. His Honour reserved consideration of thfi case until to-morrow morning. James Hart, on a charge of forging, was sentenced to eighteen months' naid labour. Henry Jeffries, alias Frank Jeffries, had pleaded Guilty to the forging of the name of Mr. E. Seager to a cheque. MY. Wilford appeared for the prisoner, and asked that he be admitted •to probation. Prisoner had held a good position, and was the sole support of an aged mother. His Honour, who reserved sentence until to-morrow, said it was evident the cheque was written when the man was drunk, and he could not understand how under the circumstances any one had seen fit to cash it. Robert Walker, in a case of forgery, received a sentence of eighteen months' hard labour.