SUPREME COURT
(81 TELEGRAPH.—PEESd ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, This Day. At the Supreme Court the following prisoners were sentenced :—Charles Sherman, forgery and uttering at Thames, two years' probation, his residence and occupation being subject to the approval of the Probation Officer; Ernest Brett, alias Cecil Travel's, indecent assault, five years' imprisonment; Alfred Herbert Brookes, indecent assault on a male, three years' probation; and Johan Alfred Johaunse.n, breaking and entering and theft, three years' hard labour. Ernest William Durbridge, charged with a' criminal offence on a girl, was found not guilty. Thomas Savage, a Maori, charged with bigamy, in having manned a white woman in England while he had a Maori wife at Thames, .said he had committed the offence under the impression that as his first wife left him he was entitled to remarry after a certain lapse of time. The Judge believed that accused's marriage was contracted in good faith. He fined accused £5, and ordered him to pay the costs of the prosecution. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. At the Supreme Court John Willie Hartley was sentenced to six months' •imprisonment on three charges of theft of pigeons of a total value of £83.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 33, 10 February 1919, Page 8
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193SUPREME COURT Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 33, 10 February 1919, Page 8
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