SUPREME COURT
(Per United Press Association.) LIGHT CALENDAR AT GISBORNE. Gisborne, June 14. The Supreme Court sessions, the Chief Justice presiding, opened this morning. The calendar- was unusually light, there being only two cases, both against Maoris. True bills were returned in each case. William Henry Waake pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault • and was remanded for sentence. On a charge of assaulting and robbing a Japanese at Tikitiki against two natives, Kareamea Tuhaka and Parekura Haenga, the Jury returned a verdict of not guilty and prisoners were discharged. AUCKLAND SESSION. ' Auckland, June 15. In the Supreme Court, John Ewart, who pleaded guilty to forgery at Papakura, while an employee of a bank, was sentenced to be detained at Waikeria for reformative treatment for a term not exceeding two years. Mr Justice Stringer said the prisoner was a young, unmarried man, with a fair education and considerable ability. He was in a position of trust, and received a substantial salary, but he stole from his employers a considerable sum and fled from New Zealand with the proceeds of his dishonesty. His crime was designed and deliberate, and carried into effect by a very crafty forgery.
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Southland Times, Issue 19897, 16 June 1926, Page 6
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