SUPREME COURT SITTINGS AT NEW PLYMOUTH.
(from our own correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. The Supreme Court was opened-to-day by Judge Richmond. There are eight cases for trial, but not crimes of a heinous character, the offences being various forms of larceny, two cases of forgery, and one of embezzlement. William Cunningham, for stealing » gold chain from John Burton; brewer, Hawera, was found guilty, and sentenoed to eighteen months' hard labor. James Smith, for forging J. S. Gayerhill's name to a cheque, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. John Willis, charged with stealing a chestnut mare at Akuhatu, was acquitted. The grand jury found a true bill against E. C. Wilkinson, charged with embezzling money from the Government at Hawera. His case will come before the Court on Monday.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 111, 7 May 1881, Page 2
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132SUPREME COURT SITTINGS AT NEW PLYMOUTH. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 111, 7 May 1881, Page 2
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