WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1004, 3 October 1912, Page 3

WELLINGTON SUPREME COURT.

A FOXTON CASE.

At the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, Clarence Percival Wells, a young man, had nothing to say why sentence should not be passed upon him for theft, and breaking and entering and theft. His Honour said it appeared prisoner had been twice before the Court —once when he was quite a boy. He was then sent to Burnham Industrial School. “I do not know why it is,” said his Honour, ’‘but the number of boys who have been at Burnham and who come before the Court is very large. It may be hereditary.” Mr Ostler said prisoner absconded from Burnham. While in Wellington, on the way to Foxton, where his mother resided, he committed theft, and for this he was convicted on September 7th last. He went to Foxton, where he stole a bicycle, on which he rode off and committed the other offence. He then left the bicycle in a bush and returned with the stolen property. His Honour said prisoner was entering on a career of crime. He would be sent to Invercargill, where he would receive reformatory treatment. The Prisons Board hoped to meet in Invercargill about the end of the year, and they might see prisoner there. The sentence was twelve months’ reformative treatment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.