CRIMINAL CAREER.
BOUND OVER AT EIGHT.
TWENTY CONVICTIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, May 1. Stated to have been bound over at the age of eight and to have had only two months of freedom since he was seven, Alan Stevens (22), carpenter, of Caversham Road, Reading, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Oxfordshire Quarter Sessions on a charge of breaking and entering. Stevens' real name, said a police officer, was Thomas Steven Kneale. He was a native of Ramsay, Isle of Man. His convictions began in August, 1922, when he was bound over at the ape of eight, an<l there were 20 convictions against him since. He had been previously sentenced for shop-breaking, sacrilege and larceny. Mr. Mitford (defending) said Stevens had never known what home life was, and in these circumstances he started a criminal career. He had had only two months of freedom since he was seven.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1937, Page 16
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152CRIMINAL CAREER. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 126, 29 May 1937, Page 16
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