SUPREME COURT SESSIONS.
CASES TRIED AT BLENHEIM. {ur VEI.EQRAPU—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! BLENHEIM, June 20. In the Supreme Court, Charles Colin Walter Wilkin, aged 25, charged with stealing a cheque and forging the endorsement thereon, was found guilty with a recommendation to mercy on account of the prisoner not understanding the gravity of the offence. ' The Judge deferred sentence till the morning. A charge of conspiracy to defraud Scott and Martindale, and Ross and Bradshaw by the use of telegrams, preferred against Edwin John Walsh and John Vernon Binlcy, is proceeding. The latter, a telegraph operator, altered the names of the horses on telegrams endorsed by Walsh to the winning names. Walsh first telegraphing the winners from the race meet-
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West Coast Times, 21 June 1912, Page 4
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119SUPREME COURT SESSIONS. West Coast Times, 21 June 1912, Page 4
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