PROWLING ROUND GAOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 920, 13 March 1930, Page 1

PROWLING ROUND GAOL

CAUGHT AND PUT IN FOR THREE MONTHS CAPTURED BY WARDER Seen by a warder prowling round the prison walls at midnight last night, Ganesh Givan was chased by a warder and caught. This morning at the Police Court he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. “You needn’t bother about going there at night as you’ll see it every day for three months now’,’’ commented Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. Givan, an Indian, described as a hawker, aged 29, was charged with being found without lawful excuse in the enclosed premises of the Auckland Gaol. He pleaded not guilty. Givan had been seen coming toward the stone crusher, where contraband goods were sometimes planted for rrisoners, according to Sub-Inspector McCarthy.

While patrolling the gaol at 11.55 last night he had seen Givan going ro the stone crusher, said James McKinnon, a warder. Witness had -based the man and caught him. “We have had to keep the crusher under observation as people have been concealing contraband goods there for prisoners," he added. The Magistrate: Yes, I know—taiors, letters, and so on. There has been a great deal of trouble over that.

Glvan’s excuse was that he went to the gaol to seek permission to take Papers to a fellow countryman imprisoned there.

The Magistrate: What, at midnight? The sub-inspector remarked that accused was quite familiar through experience with the interior of the gaol and the term of three months was imposed.