A BAD CITIZEN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 109, 9 May 1923, Page 6

A BAD CITIZEN

FOURTH CONVICTION FOB SERI-

OUS OFFENCE,

• A small man named Arthur Henry iWoods made his appearance in the dpek at the Supreme Court to-day to answer two' charges of indecently assaulting two little girls at Alicetown. He pleaded no± guilty, but made no real.effort in his own defence. He was not represented by counsel. ■ The Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stoul) presided, and Mr. P. S. K. Macassey appeared for the Crown. Mr. Ernest Barltrop was foreman of the jury. On hearing the evidence, the jury retired for less than a quarter of an lour, returning with a verdict of guilty and the recommendation that prisoner should be mentally examined.

" I don't wonder at the recommendation," said the Chief Justice, -" and you ,-will wonder even less when you learn that the prisoner has been a bad citizen all his life. He has been convicted of theft "and breaking and entering, and has three times been sentenced for indecent assaults of a more serious naturo than the present. He has spent nineteen years of his life in _ gaol for indecent assaults, apart from sentences for other offences." Prisoner was remanded for sentence until the end of the week.