CRIMINAL SESSION.
The Supreme Court sat at Oamaru yesterday, but the local Frees agent was asleep as usual. Mr Justice Williams’s charge merely dealt with the cases on the list. Maria Loper, for stealing a dress, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. John Robertson Miller, for the theft of money and jewellery from his employer, was put under probation for eighteen months, and ordered to contribute LlO towards the cost of his prosecution. Mary Conlan, for keeping a disorderly house, was sentenced to six months’ hard labor in Dunedin Gaol. In the case of John Burke, shop lifting, the jury being unable to agree to a verdict, His Honor said, seeing the trivial value of the articles stolen, that it was not worth while detaining the prisoner in gaol and in putting the country to the expense of another prosecution, whereupon the Crown Prosecutor entered a nolle, prosequi. John Cowley was convicted| of an unmentionable offence, sentence being deferred. In the case of Arthur John Denton, a lad, charged with indecent assanlt, the jury were unable to agree.
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Evening Star, Issue 7470, 14 March 1888, Page 2
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