PRISONERS SENTENCED.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19719, 9 September 1929, Page 14

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

iPUM USOCUTIOM TMUeeJtA.ll.) DUNEDINj September 7. In the Supreme Court four youthful cracksmen appeared before Mr Jnstice Kennedy for sentence. Charles Walter Bams&y faced eleven charges of breaking and entering, and James Ramsay, John David Caskie, and Oliver John Keenan one charge each of breaking and entering. Charles Ramsay, who was regarded as the ringleader of the gang, was ordered to be detained in the Borstal Institute for two years on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent, and James Ramsay and Caskie were admitted to probation for three years. In regard to Keenan, his Honour intimated that he would take time to consider his decision. A youth named John Palmer was sentenced to two years in the Borstal on eight charges of breaking and entering. The Crown Prosocutor stated that in one case prisoner trawled into a room when the oceupant was asleep to take the keys of the Standard Insurance Company from the occupant's pocket, and had in his hand a dinner gong in the form of a waddy of wood. This was a dangerous type of burglary, and was past the stage of "boy" crime. When the occupant of the room awoke prisoner ran from the hou?e.