CAREER OF CRIME

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 8

CAREER OF CRIME

A YOUNG MAN'S LAPSES. An intelligent-looking young man, Joseph Charles Taiko, 24 years of age, with nineteen cases of breaking and entering against him, came before the Chief Justice (Sir Robert titout) for sentence to-day. Ths offences had been committed within the past few months at Palmerston, Mastorton, Napier, and Hastings. Mr. Macassey, representing tho Grown, said tha.t Talko had been a Burnha-m boy. Ho had been sent there in 1900 for breaking and entering. Ho _ had escaped four times ffom the institution, the last time in 1908. Subsequently he had gono to work at Hastings, and had behaved himself for a time. Though he was so young, the polico regarded him as a dcs: erato and very clever criminal. At Napier" he had been found in possession of a revolver and an electric torch. t His Honour, to the prisoner : I shall have to put you Under discipline. There arcs 19 charges against you, and it is evident you have entered upon a< career of .crime. You will have to como before the Prison Board to see what they can do with you. You must sco that this sort of thing means continual gaol; what a fool you have been 1 There is not a young man comes before me for this sort of thing who is not an a<ss. A sentence of one month's imprisonment on eaoh of tho nineteen charges was imposed, the sentences to be cumulative. Accused was also declared *n habitual criminal. \