SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.
[by telegraph.—press association.] Christchdrch, Monday. At the Supreme Court, James Whitehead pleaded guilty to three indictments of having stolen sums of money amounting in the aggregate to £170, the funds of the Raiapoi Working Men's Club. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentence? to run concurrently. James Shand Kelly, for criminal assault, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. John Turner Heard, lately City Rate Collector, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for having stolen sums ' amounting to £103. Douglas Burnside and Joseph William Miller, found guilty of criminal intimacy with a girl under the age of fifteen, were sentenced to twelvo months' and eighteen months' imprisonment respectively. The Grand Jury found no bill in the case of Alex. Letion, charged with stabbing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9831, 28 May 1895, Page 5
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