SALUTARY SENTENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6322, 27 February 1922, Page 5

SALUTARY SENTENCE.

BURGLAR DAWKINS GOES TO GAOL. WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. Charles Campbell Dawkins, the young Victorian College student who caused a sensation in Wellington a little over a month ago, confessing to a number of burglaries in Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch, also the assault on Dr. P. F. McEvedy. Wellington, was sentenced by Justice Hashing to-day. The charges to which Dawkins pleaded guilty numbered 37 of breaking, entering and theft, one of theft, and one of causing actual bodily harm. Mr Macassey the Crown Prosecutor, reviewed the offences. He stated the attack on Dr McEvedy was deliberate and murderous. The prisoner had been examined by medical men, who were of opinion that he was very intelligent and not suffering any delusions, and had no mental deficiency. Counsel for prisoner suggested that the case was one of the most remarkable ever before a Court. He referred to prisoner’s respectable upbringing, and the fact that lie served on Gallipoli. Until July of last year he had. borne an unblemished record, but for some unexplainable reason he had commenced a career of crime. The prisoner was sentenced Wo two years’ hard labor on the assault charge, 18 months’ on each charge of breaking and entering, and six months for theft, the sentences to be concurrent, to he followed by four years’ reformative detention.—P.A.