CRIMINAL IN EMBRYO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18927, 27 January 1925, Page 12

CRIMINAL IN EMBRYO.

ARRIVAL AS STOWAWAY.

SEVEN DWELLINGS ROBBED. SUBJECT FOR DEPORTATION. "Quito a modern Jack Sheppard, lie is going i<> be a bad criminal. H was the observation of Mr. J. W. PoyrtUm, S.M., when Iho depredations of BteWaft Spatkes, agett 18, were related in the Police Court yesterday. Accused pleaded guilty to sever, charges Of theft from dwellings iii various pafts of New Zealand, The stolen property consisted of jewellery, ciothihg a;id foot wear, a portion of which had teen sold to second-hand dealers./ Detective Robertson Raid the youth had left his home ift New South Wales and eaM<> to New Zealand as a etb'Vrivway. He was concealed on tho boat by members of the crew, After securing temporary employment on a coastal vessel ho deserted and commenced thieving. When he arrived in Auckland he 'committed several thefts, and then joined a circus as an attendant; lie travelled to Pukeholie with the circus and there stole u pair of boots. His employer discovered itis guilt and discharged him. Chief Detective Gummings: He is a most undesirable type and it would be well to deport him. Mr. Poynton: ll would be unfair to inflict him" osi tht>, community, he is a menace. He might, resume travelling around and livifig by theft if ho were liberated. Accused was sentenced to three years' reformative detention upon one charge and a remand was granted upon the remainder in order that the possibilities of deportation might bo investigated.