"LORD NORTHESK" AGAIN IN GAOL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1908, Page 2

"LORD NORTHESK" AGAIN IN GAOL.

* -, AN HABITUAL OFFENDER. [Bt TELEGBAnr. — Special to The Post.] AUCKLAND, This Day. Zane Isidore Pci\y, who some time ago had a meteoric caioer in various parts of the Dominion as Lord North-r-sk, wis tiie second "habitual offender who was dealt audli at the Supreme Court to-day. Dr. H. T>.\ Bamford, who appeared for him, nsUed for ;iii hnient a sentence us possible on 'the corn'iction for false pwlni'i I.*.1 .*. Since Ilia last liberation Percy had been endeavouring to lead an honest life, and had obtained two luu-athe situaUoui from both of which he was discharged, owing, the speaker btlie%ed, to the in tervention of the police who hud in formed his employers of bis record. Six montliß ago h? had got inairied ; lio did not urge that as a mitigating circumstances. His Honour : No, indeed ; ho had no right to get married. Dr. Bamford : Since his marriage he has endeavoured to live an honest life. His Honour : Have you seen his record ? Dr. Bamford : I can't explain away his record, but I ask that he- bo dealt with as 1 leniently as possible. His Honour said that the r<=coid was a very lengthy and bad one, and iti addition to imposing a sentence of "two years it was his duty to declare prisoner to bo an habitual criminal. The prisoner left the donk not knowing for how long the broad arrow would bo his adornment.