PROWLER GAOLED FOR MONTH

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28952, 21 July 1959, Page 10

PROWLER GAOLED FOR MONTH

Arrest By Waiting Police (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, July 20. For a long time residents of Doon street, Invercargill, have been troubled by a prowler whose nocturnal visits have upset many women. But on Saturday night a man was arrested after the police had lain in wait. This morning he was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment when he appeared before Mr G. A. Nicholls, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill He was Ronald McCallum,, aged 23, single, a lorry driver, who was charged with being found without lawful excuse, but in circumstances that did not disclose the commission of, or the intention to commit a crime, in the garden of a house at 94 Doon street. Senior-Sergeant C. J. L. Matheson said the prowler was persistent in his visits to one residence, so the police kept the house under observation. At 11.20 on Saturday night, McCallum was seen looking at the house while riding past on his bicycle. Five minutes later he returned on foot and crept alongside the shadowed sides of two houses and then entered the garden. He tried to peer through a window which had the blind drawn and as he did so a constable apprehended him. "I will issue a warning now that this type of offence will mean prison for anyone caught doing it," the Magistrate said.