Wellington Supreme Court.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, This Day. John Pearson, for theft at Palmerston North, was admitted to probation for six mouths. The young man named Roderick McKenzie received twelve months' hard labor for stealing a coat at Masterton. McKenzie escaped from the prisoners gang at Fort Haswell iv January last, aud while at large in the Wairarapa district committed the offence. Au elderly man named O'Donnel, with previous conviction, against him at Greymouth and Christchurch, was sentenced to six months' hard labor for false pretences. C. A. Sutherland, 24 years of age, who had been acting as canvasser for a local firm of printers, received six months' for false pretences. The Chief Justice held the prisoner was too old to obtain the benefits of the Probation Act; and besides his late employers did uot give him a good character. Frederick Marryatt on a charge of theft of jewellery from the Masonic Hotel was remanded for sentence. The prisoner who is respectably connected in Christchurch, applied to be placed under the Probation Act.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 283, 4 June 1895, Page 2
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174Wellington Supreme Court. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 283, 4 June 1895, Page 2
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