SUPREME COURT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 August 1924, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

DUNEDIN SESSIONS. (by TEI/EGRAPII —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 5. At the Supreme Court, May Bell Miller, on two charges of a false statement with regard to particulars of the registration of births, was admitted to probation for two years on condition that she remained in the Salvation Army Home. Alfred Shirley Glozier, for making a false declaration under the Marriage Act in respect to the age of Helen Adelina Agnes Glozier, who was similarly charged, was fined £2. The female accused was ordered to be imprisoned till the court rose. Charles Albert Varcoe, for keeping postal packets belonging to his employer, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour; 131 letters were found and others were missing, which disorganised the employer’s business. Jas. David Andrew, for carnally knowing a girl under 16 years of age, who had since been married to him, was ordered to come up for sentence if called on. BREAKING AND ENTERING. PALMERSTON N., August 6. At the Supreme Court, Herbert Harold Payne, charged with breaking, entering and theft at Dannevirke, was found guilty and sentence was deferred till to-morrow. The case for the Crown was that the accused was found asleep on premises, the glass door of which had been broken enough to admit a man’s body. The accused was wearing an overcoat, the property of the firm on whose xiremises the accused was found.

Accused, addressing the jury, denied committing the crime, and said lie did not remember anything about the affair. He had been drinking and gambling during the day a.t Dannevirke.