YOUNG MAN'S CRIME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20560, 10 May 1930, Page 14

YOUNG MAN'S CRIME.

BAD FAMILY RECORD. COMMENT BY THE JUDGE. Having been found guilty of attempted breaking and entering, Harold John Windsor, aged 23 (Mr. Noble), appeared before | Mr. Justice Herdman in tho Supreme Court yesterday for sentence. Ho was ordered to bo detained for reformative purposes for a period not exceeding two years. Mr. Noble said Windsor seemed to be the victim of heredity. He had been in prison before, but counsel asked His Honor to take into consideration the jury's very strong recommendation to ! mercy. A short', sharp sentence might bring him to his senses and to the realisation of tho fact that crime did not p»y. His Honor told prisoner that the jury had very properly found that he had been associated with his brother and another | man in attempting to break and enter. ; The accused was m a curious position. ' lie had other brothers in prison at the present time, a number of them, and a sister in a probation home. He himself had already been convicted of theft in Napier and had been detained in a Borstal institute. That did not seem to have done him any good, arid now ho had started again What would happen to him if he kept on in tho same way His Honor did not know.