STABBING AFFRAY
INDIAN SENTENCED
LONG TERM OF DETENTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day,
A sentence of four and half years' reformative detention was imposed by Mr. Justice Kennedy this morning on Jumsher Allee, aged 34, an Indian donkeyman, who stabbed Jabid Allee, serang of the vessel Olive Bank, at Ravensbourne on April 9. His Honour added that if the circumstances warranted such a course, the prisoner would doubtless be returned to India earlier. . . , . .
Counsel. Mr. Warrington, in his plea for mercy, claimed that the prisoner's story- was more likely, that the serang, who should have been his guide, was really fleecing him, and when he made an appeal for money' for his mother, struck him. also calling him a "pig's son, which was a deadly insult to a Mohammedan.
The Crown Prosecutor said that counsel's attack on the veracity of Crown witnesses was unjustified, and. the' knifing was an unprovoked and atrocious crime. . There was not a jpt1 of. evidence to substantiate the prisoner's story. ' -. >;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 11
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166STABBING AFFRAY Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 11
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