THE STUDENT BURGLAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 February 1922, Page 5

THE STUDENT BURGLAR.

TWO YEARS’ HARD LABOR. By Toiegraph-—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 25. Charles Campbell Dawkins, the young Victoria College student who caused a sensation in Wellington a little over a month ago by confessing to a number of burglaries in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch, also an assault on Dr. P. F McEvedy, of Wellington, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Husking to-day. The charges tq which Dawkins pleaded guiltv were 37, breaking and entering and theft, one of theft, and one of cawing actual bodily harm. Mr. Macaasey, the Crown Prosecutor, I eviewed the offences, and stated the attack on Dr. McEvedy was deliberate and murderoins. The prisoner had been examined by medical men, who were of the opinion that he was very intelligent and not suffering from any delusions, and there were no mental deficiencies. Counsel for prisoner suggested the case was one of the most remarkable ever before the Court. He referred to prisoner’s respectable upbringing and to the fact that he served on Gallipoli. Until July of last year he had borne an unblemished record, but for some unexpiicable reason he had commenced a career of crime. Prisoner was sentenced to two years* hard labor on the assault charge, 13 months each on the charge of breaking and entering, and three months for theft, the sentences to be concurrent, to be followed by four’ years’ reformative detention.