INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 86, 13 April 1931, Page 8

INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE.

LONG SERIES OF THEFTS. THREE YEARS' HARD LABOUR. Eight charges were admitted by a young man, Arthur Victor Jones, alias John Schofield (23), who was told by Mr. Justice Herdman, in the Supreme Court to-day, that he had qualified to be perilled an habitual criminal. In the prisoner's list were included thefts at New Plymouth and Wellington from 1926 to 1930. In December last he had been convicted of breaking and entering and theft, said his- Honor, and sentenced to two years' hard labour, which. he was now serving. ' The prosent se-ies of charges, four of breaking and entering and theft', and four' of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, had been committed around Gisborne and Da-nnevirke and in other places. In view'of the fact that, Jones was only a young man,.his Honor said he would.not declare him an habitual criminal.

A sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard labour was passed, to be concurrent with the present sentence. Later in the morning Jones appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Police Court. He was charged with being an incorrigible rogue, in that he escaped from Wi Tako prison, Wellington, on March 10, and on the same date, at Upper Hutt, with stealing gum boots and an overcoat, valued at £4, the property of Harold Dalton. On the first charge he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, while on the theft count he was convicted and discharged.