A STUDENT'S CRIMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 8

A STUDENT'S CRIMES.

SIX YEARS IN PRISON. SENTENCE ON DAWKINS. [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Saturday. The young Victoria College student, Charles Campbell Dawkins, who caused a sensation in Wellington a little over a month ago by confessing to a number of burglaries in Wellington, Auckland, and Chi'istchui'ch, and also to an assault on Dr. P. F. McEvedy, of Wellington, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Hosking, in the Supreme Court to-day. The charges to which Dawkins pleaded were 37 of breaking and entering and theft, one of theft, and one of causing actual bodily harm. Mr. Macassey, Crown Prosecutor, reviewed the offenoes. and stated that the attack on Dr. McEvedy was deliberate and murderous. The prisoner had been examined by medical men, who were of opinion that he waa very intelligent and not suffering from any delusions or mental deficiency. * Counsel for prisoner suggested that the caeo was one of the most remarkable ever before the Court. He referred to the prisoner's respectable upbringing and the fact that he served on Qaflipoli. Until July of last year he had borne an unblemished record, but for some unexplainable reason he commenced a career of crime. Prisoner was' sentenced to two years' imprisonment on the- assault chargo, eighteen months on each charge of breaking and entering, and six months' for theft, the sentences to be concurrent and to be followed by four years' reformative detention.