A YOUNG BURGLAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 227, 13 February 1913, Page 2

A YOUNG BURGLAR.

SENTENCED TO TWELVE MONTHS - . Per Press Association. Auckland. February 10. The youth Edward Charles Banbary, alias John Bandley, eighteen years of age, who, among other nefarious exploits, escaped from the exercise yard at the Auckland police station on January 25, and was recaptured at Devonport \ a day or two later, appeared for senj tence before Mr. Justice Edwards at the I Supremo Court to-day on a charge of escaping from custddy and five charges of breaking and entering committed on January 20 (two charges) and January 22 (three charges). Prisoner asked his Honor for another chance, saying he was sorry for what he had done. His Honor: You have had so many chances, young man. Tf you had only misbehaved yourself once, I would have some reason to believe you when yon say you are sorry. You have done the same thing in New South Wales. If you had been sorry then, you would have kept clear of crime here. You have committed so many offences that if I . were to sentence you separately on each charge it would take the extent of two or three .lifetimes to cover the period. You arc a very undesirable boy, and T am sorry you did not stop where yon were reared. You have no excuse at all. There is a great demand for hoys in New Zealand, and they do exceedingly well if they choose to, but you preferred to climb up waterpipes into shops to honest toil. You have got to learn that you cannot act like that in this country. His Honor added that lie would take prisoner's youth into account, and would only impose a light sentence—twelve months' hard labor on each charge, the terms to be concurrent , —and would order him to be detained for a further term not exceeding five years for reformative treatment.