TIMARU SUPREME COURT.
AN OLD OFFENDER'S PLEA. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TiMAßtr, Monday. At the Supreme Court, Edwin James Steel, an old offender, was sentenced to three years for three cases of theft at Christchurch and Makikihi. He asked to be let off and allowed to go to the front. Judge Denniston said that might have done in the old davs, but not now. In a case of conspiracy to defraud a bookmaker by delaying a telegram, E. 0. McMurtrie, telegraphist at Waimate, and Mrs. Alice Moore pleaded guilty. The woman was ordered to come up for sentence when called on, and the man was admitted to probation for two years. A case of sheep-stealing against James Dunnett. farmer, of Cattle Valley, Fairlie, was commenced but not completed. Dunnett assisted a neighbour, Albert Chapman, who knew little about sheep, and is charged with steal ng eight of them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16010, 31 August 1915, Page 5
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