SUPREME COURT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 215, 18 September 1911, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

' [IBESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Sept. 16. ' x At the Supreme Court to-day John Scott, aged 61 years, was (charged with falsifying a cash book belonging to the Wellingto-n Meat Exptot Company The indictment" included a number of charges. He was sentenced by the Chief Justice to nine months' imprisonment. - ■' ' . Counsel in pleading for leniency, said the accused's character had hitlierto been blameless, and; he had^ been an industrious and dutiful citi : zen. He was married and Tiad four children. Tn 1902 he had a salary of j £500, but as a result of retrenchment ] it wa^ reduced-in 1906 to £300. Accused was unable .to cut flown his standard of living, and his troubles commenced. ■ A young man named1 Wilson, alias Taylor, on a charge of false pretences, was ordered to be sent to Invercargill for reformative treatment. ■