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WAYWARD GIRLS BORSTAL ESCAPEES. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. Two girls who escaped from the Borstal Institute at Point Halswell last Sunday, Ruby Bulliffe, aged 19, and Dulcie Miller Turnbull, aged 17, were before the Magistrate’s Court to-day and pleaded guilty to being incorrigible rogues, having absconded from legal confinement, and also to a charge cf having stolen an attache case, 200 cigarettes and a cardigan jacket, of the total value of £3 7s 6d, from a Chinaman’s shop at Shannon, where they were arrested on Tuesday. The sub-inspeetor said Bulliffe was sentenced at Christchurch in April to two years’ detention for a breach of ,her probationary license. Turnbull was convicted last March of being idle and disorderly and was committed to the care of the Child Welfare Officer for one year. Their conduct had been good until last Sunday, when they escaped. Each of the accused was convicted and ordered an additional three months. On the charge of theft they were convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 6
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177THREE MONTHS EXTRA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19989, 4 November 1927, Page 6
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