“INCORRIGIBLE ROGUES”
TWO GIRLS SENTENCED
ESCAPE FROM PT. HALSWELL Press Association. WELLINGTON, Thursday. Two girls who escaped from the Borstal Institute at Point Halswell last Sunday, Ruby Bulliffe, aged 19, and Dulcie Millen Turnbull, aged 17, were before the Magistrate’s Court to-day, and pleaded guilty to being incorrigible rogues. They admitted having- absconded from legal confinement, and also to a <-barge of having stolen an attache case, 200 cigarettes, and a cardigan jacket, of a total value of £3 7s 6d, from a Chinaman’s shop -at Shannon, where they were arrested on Tuesday. The sub-inspector said that Bulliffe was sentenced at Christchurch in April to two years’ detention at the institution for a breach of her probationary licence. Turnbull was convicted last March of being idle p.nd disorderly, and was committed to the care of the childwelfare officer for one year. Their conduct had been good until last Sunday, when they escaped. Each of the accused girls was convicted and ordered an additional three months in the institution. On the charge of theft they were convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 193, 4 November 1927, Page 14
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