STABBING OF SERANG.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 4 June 1937, Page 2

STABBING OF SERANG.

INDIAN SENTENCED. AFFRAY AT DUNEDIN. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, June 3. A sentence of four and a-half years reformative detention was imposed byMr Justice Kennedy this morning on Jam slier Allee, aged 34, ail Indian donkeyman, who stabbed Jab d Allee. serang of the vessel Olive Bank, a 1 Ravensbourne, on April 9. His Honoui added that if the circumstances war ranted such a course, the prisonei would doubtless be returned to India earlier-. '■ , . . , Counsel. Mr Warrington, in ms pier for mercy, claimed that the prisonei i story was more -likelv. that tlm seizing who should have been his guide, waf really fleecing him, and when he mail an appeal for money, lor- his mothei struck him, also calling him a p'S ' son, which was a deadly insult to a Mo hammedan. The Crown prosecutor r/ud tli-a counsel’s attack on the veracity Crown witnesses was unjustified, anc the knifing was an unprovoked am atrocious crime. There was not a jo of -evidence to sul>st«iiiti<Tt6 tlio piJ son-er’s etory.