REFORMATIVE TREATMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1098, 17 May 1913, Page 3

REFORMATIVE TREATMENT.

TAKAPUNA SHOOTING CASE. Auckland. May 16. The lad, Robin Jasper Crago, who received a great deal of notoriety in connection with the recent shooting sensation at Takapuna, was placed in the prisoners' dock at the Supreme Court to-day, and charged with having, on March 13th, at Takapuna, attempted to murder Bert. James Hannah and Percy Robert Skeates, also with having caused actual bodily harm to Hannah and Skeates. Mr Justice Cooper was on the Bench. Mr Thorn represented the prisoner. Prisoner, when asked how he would plead, replied "Guilty.”

His Honour said that the law allowed him, without inflicting a prior term of imprisonment, to send the prisoner for reformative treatment for a maximum term of ten years. He would avail himself of the opportunity provided, and would order the prisoner to be detained for the maximum of ten years’ reformative, treatment, as this was the' prisoner’s only chance of reformation. Prisoner would be medically examined from time to time, and would, as far as possible, be kept from criminal associations. Should the Prison Board, at any period during the ten years, consider that it would be safe to grant the prisoner his liberty, they could remit some portion of the term.