PATIENCE AT AN END

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 3

PATIENCE AT AN END

Judge Showed No Leniency [(From "N.Z Truth's" Auckland Rep.) I Chequered though his life has been, it' is doubtful if so many hectic events have been crowded into* the criminal career of William Ingram in' such a brief period as those which were narrated m the Auokland Supreme Court. THE name of Ingram was brought 1 L into the limelignt agaih/'when he made his daring escape from the custody of police escort 'oh the express from Taihape, and then .a few' days later followed an account of his sensational recapture by Constable Ryan, of Wellsford, m a lonely gumdigger's hut north of Te Hana. v I At 2 a.m. on Saturday morning . Constable Ryan, rousing Ingram ' from a ' sound ' sleep, effected the arrest of the wanted man, and ,he later stood m the dock before his Honor, Mr. Justice Ostler, to, ¥ re : ceive sentence for false -pretences at Taihape. • ,- 1 The Judge expressed surprise at the leniency of the court towards Ingram and soon gave liim to under'l stand that he had had his last chance. f "The court is a very patient thing, but its patience comesto an end sometimes, as it has done for you now," stated his Honor, m sentencing Ingram to three years' hard labor and brandIng him as an habitual criminal. By what Crown Prosecutpr Hubble told the court it was gathered that the police have not yet finished with Ingrain, and that he has yet to make another appeai-anca at the Magistrate's Court