SUPREME COURT CASES.
OAMARIT, Maech 13. The Supreme Court sessions opened today before Mr Justice Williams. True bills were found in all the cases. Maria Loper pleaded guilty to larceny, and was sentenced to three months. John RobertEon Miller, for larceny of goods from a -watchmaker's shop, where he was employed, was placed on probation for eighteen months. Eli Jones, for unlawfully pawning a watch, pleaded guilty, and got twelve months. For keeping a disorderly house, Mary Conlan got six months. The jury could not agree in the case of John Burke, for breaking into a shop and ..stealing two pairs of shears, - Johtt-Cowly.
was convicted for an unnatural offence, and sentence was deferred. The jury in the case of Arthur John Denton, for rape, could not agree, and were locked up for the night.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6186, 14 March 1888, Page 4
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