SUPREME COURT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 104, 23 June 1911, Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

(Before His Honour Mr. Justice Edwards.) The Supreme Court sessions were continued at New Plymouth on Wednesday. FORGERY AND UTTERING AND THEFT. George Delaney, a young, man, was charged with having, at Eltliam, on or about May 31, forged a cheque for £l2 IDs, drawn on the Bank of New Zealand at Eltliam, and purporting to I) > signed h\ \V. A. Cleaver, and knowing it to no forged, that he dealt with the cheque as though it wore genuine, obtaining from the Eltliam branch of the Melbourne Clothing Company certain goods and cash amounting to CIO 18s Gd. As an alternative to the charge of uttering, he. was charged also with obtaining tho goods and cash by false pietoncos. Mr. C. H. Weston prosecuted, l>nt the prisoner was unrepresented by counsel. He pleaded “not guilty.’’ The jury was out for ten minutes, and returned with a verdict of guilty on all counts.

' His Honour said accused’s account uas not a clean one. Of course, ho could not try him on suspicion of taking other people’s money, hut there remained the fact that a previous cmpJaycr at Marion and his recent employer ■' at Normahby had, after his leaving them, discovered discrepancies in their cash. He was not satisfied that his Mas a case-for probation. Probation was for people who had given way' to siuldch temptation. Prisoner was not' of these. This crime was deliberate. He ordered the accused to he confined in the Now Plymouth prison lor reformative treatment for a period not exceeding twelve months. ALLEGEI) CATTLE STEALING. Albert Edward Madgwick pleaded not guilty to a charge of having,, ai Ra'notn, on oi about October 21 last, stolen four head of cattle, valued at £32 ,thc property of Enphemia Dew. Tho jury returned a verdict of ‘‘not guilty.”