SUPREME COURT.
SESSIONS AT AUCKLAND. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 13. At the Supreme Court the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on charges of theft and forgery against Aubrey Leigh Middlemiss when he wea a clerk in the Pukekohe post office. Tho charges concerned a deposit of £'2o by a Maori, which it was alleged that the accused had put to his own use, and which it was stated had been repaid, but which statement was denied by the Maori. 'J he postmaster denied that the Maori had ever made any complaint to him, and several witnesses gave evidence as to accused’s good character. Three young men, Ernest John Brasting, James Harold O’Brien and Gustav Henry Hansen, who were sentenced last week to five years’ imprisonment and declared habitual criminals for a series of burglaries, were* yesterday, on a charge of escaping from lawful custody by breaking cut of a cell at the police station, sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment concurrent with the sentences How being served
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 8
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169SUPREME COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 8
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