SENT TO BORSTAL
Married Woman Charged
With Theft
Because, as he said, Viola Winifred Ingram, a married woman, aged 21, Masterton, did not appear to appreciate the leniency extended by a term of probation, Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., sentenced her to 12 months’ borstal imprisonment when she appeared before him in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, charged with theft. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said that Ingram was at the Wellington hospital when a Miss Joyce Wuson gave her a wrist watch, jl pen, a pair of gloves, and £l/5/6 in cash to send to Miss Wilson’s home. Ingrain kept them and later disposed of some of the articles and cash. The detective-ser;?eant said that 16 days before .the offence was committed, Ingram was planed on probation on a charge of, false pretences.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 233, 30 June 1939, Page 13
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132SENT TO BORSTAL Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 233, 30 June 1939, Page 13
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