BORSTAL ESCAPEES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1941, Page 10

BORSTAL ESCAPEES

ADDITIONAL TERMS

Two women who escaped from the Borstal institution at Point Halswell, one of them after taking articles from the staff rooms, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday and were sentenced to additional terms. Ivy Madeleine Graham, domestic, aged 23, pleaded guilty to escaping, and to two charges of theft, involving a quantity of clothing and jewellery, and Elaine Josephine Shingleton, domestic, aged 19, pleaded guilty to escaping.

Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan, who prosecuted, said that * Graham escaped in company with Shingleton. Before she left she took the articles referred to from the staff quarters. She apparently required strict control, and did not appreciate the fact that she had previously been given a chance. Shingleton had once before escaped from the Borstal.

Graham was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, to be,served at the end of the Borstal term, and Shingleton was convicted and her term of Borstal detention was increased by six months.

Shingleton was also charged, with Ronald Edmund Shingleton, with making a false declaration under the Marriage Act. Mr. McLennan said it was alleged that after she escaped she persuaded the young man to marry her, and a false age was given to the registrar.

"I don't think that any good purpose can be served by putting the country to the expense of sending these people to trial," said Mr. McLennan, "and under the circumstances I shall call no evidence in this case."

The charge was accordingly dismissed.