SUPREME COURT.
Per Press Association.. AUCIvLAjSTD, May 27. In charging the Grand Jury at- the openin-* of the criminal sittings of the Supreme; Court Mi- Justice Benniston commented upon the large proportion of sexual .offences in the calendar, cases of this class comprising 23 per cent, of the thirty cases to be tried. , . „ His Honor sentenced Frederick W. Barker shop-walker, to four months' imprisonment for theft of drapery ! from Ins; employer. The Judge characterised as absurd the" prisoner's plea in mitigation of his offence that he wanted money to redeem familv jewels from a> pawnbroker.
DUNEDIN, May 27. The criminal sittings .before Mr Justice Williams opened .this morning. True bills were returned- in all cases. Nicholas Trescider who had been convicted' for breaking and entering was brono-ht np for sentence in consequence; oi his having broken his probation by drmkiiiff.. Accused agreed to take' out a prohibition, 'order and was released. , .. , Charles Olgier Bayley who had pleaded guilty to raafung a-false declaration as to his age when applying for a position in the railway service* was fined £5. George Stanley Sharp who pleaded guilty to receiving 'the cigarette? which were *tol<ni from the warehouse of Rattray -and Son" in. October last was admitted rt-o pro, bat-ion for eighteen months. -.:
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13297, 28 May 1907, Page 5
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