FEATS OF BRAVERY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 11

FEATS OF BRAVERY

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN,

This Day

When Kenneth Duncan McKenzie and his wife,- Elizabeth Marion McKenzie, aged £0, who was sentenced to reformative detention, the husband being re-1 manded till to-day, appeared in the Supreme Court for senteneo on Saturday on 22 charges of breaking and entering seaside residences, counsel said that the woman's character and industry in her earlier years had been remarkably good. She had furnished a test of her character when young, when sbe dived into a burning lime kiln in Southland at imminent risk of her life and saved a man who had fainted and fallen into the lime. For that action she was the recipient of an award by the Eoyal Humane Society. The husband was in a position in which he was held in the highest regard, and had distinct prospects. Ho was an overseer on road construction for the Public Works Department. McKenzio, at the age of 27, enlisted in the Auckland Eegiment and was one of that regiment's forty recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal for outstanding service at the Battle of Messines.

The Crown Prosecutor said the case had puzzled him, and he wondered if McKenzio was really guilty of a great many of the offences to which he had pleaded guilty, but that ho knew his wife had broken into places and he was prepared to shoulder the responsibility. _. . 1