SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12063, 27 May 1920, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

TIMARU SESSIONS. Per Press Association Timaru, May 85 At the Supreme Court the Grand Jury returned true hills in all three cases submitted to them. Two men, who had pleaded guilty, were dealt with. Ales Charles Mackenzie, who had defrauded his employer, a master baker of £7O, received for bread delivered, and, whilst under remand for sentence in that case had stolen a man’s Post Office bank book and forged a withdrawal order for £4O, was sentenced to reformative treatment up to five years, Albert C T Lamb, who broke from prison at Timaru while awaiting trial on a charge of theft of which when tried he was found not guilty, was now brought up on his plea of guilty to prison breaking. His counsel pointed out that as he had been acquitted of the charge on which he was detained in prison, the charge'of breaking did not lie. His Honour agreed, and ordered the discontinuance of the proceedings. Edward Ellis, a steward on the s,s. Oorinthio, charged with stealing an overcoat from the shop of J Craigio when the steamer was in Timaru, was acquitted, the only evidence against him being that a coat was found in his bunk at Wellington, and he denied all knowledge of it. Two other members of the same crew, L Valentino and V L Ellis, were charged with thefts of an overcoat and a doormat. The latter was found at the Customhouse, which was broken into the same night. The jury disagreed, and a new trial will be held.