Gisborne Supreme Court.
(I'tr I'r (ii-K-.KNf . This day. In the Supreme Court today. Charf. Conn pleaded guilty to a of persoDation at ltut (lection. Judge Connolly remarked that he baj»{>ened to know somethinir about the proceedings o! the last election, having been engaged iti\t(y-m, There seemed to have U.-n a lot of wild excitement over the i-Itction Mich as had not I'. en the since he arrived in the colony, which was a pood many yeara now, and he had no doubt prisoner wad titaSMd to act as he had done by one Bfate or the othur, publicans or prohiMtioputi). He admitted the prisoner to probation for twelve month 'a and ordered him to pay the costs of the prosecution. Arthur («eor<;e Hewitt wa* sent* need to six month's imprisonment, the Judge remarking it was very >ad to we so young a man, 2tt years, standing in the dock convicted for the third time. Edwin Crawford, for horn- stealing, wa» admitted to probation for twelve month's. Three Native- were convicted of forgery and their sentences were <iefcmd.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 257, 26 February 1897, Page 3
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177Gisborne Supreme Court. Hastings Standard, Issue 257, 26 February 1897, Page 3
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