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ILLEGAL OPERATION CASE. ACQLI ITEO OX TECHXCALITV ( HFLISTCHI iUri. February II in ’he uhargo o» tnansainghter against Amy Glenn, by rhe' iiidawkil uj. c of an instrument, Judge Adams held that owing to an omis-ion. the depositions of the dead girl wvii'c not ad missablc. The ini y returned a verdict of not guilty a( his direction, and the uo ma.u was discharged. DRIXK LI AD> TO MOTOB ACCIDENT. TE AWAML I L. February VI. .Limos Monts wn< to-day sonteimed by Mr Platts, S.M.. to seven d;-.vs jmpj*isoiime.Dt for drunkenness while driving a motor lorry. Accused v.as driving! along the Main South Bond when he' ran over a. bank into a gully, he. and anerher man Ijeing in the cab of the overturned lorry. Cne wag asleep when help arrived to extricate them. Besides imprisonment, the court ordered the cancelation of the driver’s license, ’ihe lorry was iaden with l.quur when the accident happened. A SMIREWD FORGER. AI'CKLANP. Vol). 11. At Ihe Auckland F’cilice <’otirt, Henry Liuy-I. aged 61, with a long list of aliases, pleaded gtiißy to uume.rons charges of forging cheques for a tontl amount of thirteen hundred .“.ml ninety six p umls. and obtaining a hundred and thirty-nine pounds from seven bits inosH firms tn which he introduced himself a§ 11. A. Lloyd, prnjnietor of ‘‘Lake House’’ Hotel, Rotorua, ami asked for quotations for goods to be sent to “Lake House. ’’ addressed to IL Lloyd. .Some days later he called on the various firms ami selected goods, tendering cheques, in each case ten pounds in excess of invoice, and taking the balance in cash. He was arrested before the goods were sent out. \\ ANGANVI SENTENCES. WAXGANVL February IL Throe prisoners who camo before Mr. Justice- MacGregor ag the Supreme Court this morning received (he following sentences: John Benjamin Alston, indecent assault, three rears; Herbert Boagcy, breaches of th? Bankruptcy Act. one- mouth : David Strachan, theit- of moneys from the Patca-Waitotara Rabbit Board, to b? detained fur a period not exceeding two years for reformative treatment.
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Grey River Argus, 12 February 1926, Page 7
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