SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1908, Page 4

SUPREME COURT SENTENCES.

[BT TELBGBAPH.— PKZBB ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHUBCH, 2nd Nov. In the Supreme Court a number of prisoners remanded for sentence were dealt with by Mr. Justice Dennistoh. Bridget Ellen Gallagher, who had made a false declaration in registering a birth, did not appear by misunderstanding, and was ordered to come up the following day, as several circumstances in the case required further enquiry. William Russell Millar, a recent arrival ie the country, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for forging and uttering a cheque. Middleton, a youth of nineteen, expressed sorrow for the offence of forgery and uttering a cheque. He had been keeping company with fast youths. The gaoler thought Middleton was not mentally strong. Under the special circumstances of the case his Honour let him off with twelve months' probation, and ordered him to pay £!6 costs of the prosecution. Frederick John Slow, aged 21, also for forgery and uttering, was sent to gaol for six months. Robert Richmond, aged 26, was up on two charges of "theft of jewellery from dwellinghouses in Christchurch and Timaru. He had been convicted of theft at Dunedin in 1905, and served sentences for crimes in Auckland and Rotorua. His Honour said prisoner ran the risk of being treated as, an habitual criminal. Richmond was sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each charge, to be concurrent.