A CROP OF "HABITUALS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 54, 24 July 1914, Page 5

A CROP OF "HABITUALS."

■siKNTKXCKI) AT AIX'KLAXI). By Telegraph.--Press Association. Auckland. Lust Sight. A number <if came up for sentence at tlif Supreme Court to-day. A young man wlio.se name was abbreviated on the official list i\„ •■]]. M." Moore, alias (Iraliani, alias Williamson, who appeared on charges of false pro ti'iices l and breaking- and entering and theft at Te Awnmutu, pleaded for leniency. "1 give von this sentence in tlie hope that with'your y.iulli still before yon you will reclaim yourself,'' said the judge in passing a punishment of n'hi- months' hard labor, to be followed by three year-' reformative treatment. A middle-nged man, described as

Ccorgc Allen, alias Xelia, appeared en H charge of false pretence* at New Plymouth. It \va- pointed out tliat between 18! Ml ami 100!) tlie prisoner had heel! coiivielul of -11 dill'erent offences, the last of which had earned liim three \ears' hard labor. The judge passed a sentence of nine months' hard lain",-. and again declared Allen a habitual criminal. "1 was declared si habitual criminal at 18 years of age/' declared Sydney Herbert Cordon Doyle, charged with breaking entering ami theft, and who. accord ing to his statement, is only 22. The judge decided to hand bad; the man to the Prison Board, anil ■iirain declared him a habitual criminal.

Norman Johnston, aged 32, entered the dock on five charges of burglary at Auckland. I'oinliug out that the 'present charges were all of entering dwel-ling-houses In night, his Honor .sentenced lb" pii-oner to two years' couuirrenl imnri-oiimcnt «>n each indictment, and'declared him to be an habit nal r'miinal. Duncan Aexandcr raldenvood, aged 21. chaiL'ed with breakin.' anil entering at Moninsvi'le. handed a statement to the judge, ill which he asked to be placed in char»e of his brother in Australia. lie was srnli'in-ei! |„ Huve vears' reformative -.leanm-nt. -.. that the Pri -r, lioard could deal with any bona -'ide application.