CRIMINAL CASES.
PRESS ASSOCIATION. INVERCARGILL, Juno 2. ' The Supreme Court sittings opened here to-day, before Mr Justice Dermiston. The calendar is light, and his Honor remarked on the absence ■ of a Class of offence they bad heard much of lately. The jury and district were to be congratulated. The Grand Jury found true bills in all the cases. Thos. Gibson, a respectable tradesman, was found guilty of unlawfully converting a lady’s bicycle, wMch, ho averred!, he found in his coal-yard many months after it went missing from the passage of an office in town. Ho is a man of singularly retiring disposition, and he said he did not want to be mixed up in a possible case, andj, so said nothing about finding the machine. He seems to have used it to some extent, and when the matter was laid bare, gave the lady £lB for deprivation of use of the bicycle. Ho was ordered to come up for sentence when called on. George E. Dickson, convicted of taking a watch and chain, from the pocket of a drunken man in a hotel at Lumsdeu, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4981, 3 June 1903, Page 5
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