SUPREME COURT
SERIOUS CHARGES. - £ FRESH ASSOCIATION. < AUCKLAND, February 7. The criminal sessions of the Supreme ; Court opened this morning before Mr Justice Cooper. In his cJiarge to the • Grand Jury His Honor remarked on the comiwirativcly small number of cases, but expressed regrot that there were no : lr-\; than seven charges cf sexual offences ugaiiift six persons, and said that the punUhmciit indicted in the past did not ; sccon to di-tor the connuittel of such . offences. THEFT FROM CHURCHES. i CHRISTCHURCH, February 7. 1 Tho criminal sessions of tho Supreme . Court opened this morning. Eight pri- > toners appfttred for trial and seven for sentence. Thomas Brosnahan, aged seventeen, and 0. H. Jeffries, eighteen, on sis charges of theft from churches, were ad- ; • 1 [matted to probation for three years. ; • John Spaan, on two charges of forgery, - • was declared to be an habitual criminal, 1 and sentenced to a, year's imprisonment 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7047, 8 February 1910, Page 5
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