Number of Successive Convictions.Age of Offender when offence committed.Offence.Sentence.Sentenced (Date).Released (Date).Period at Large before arrest on Further Charge.
A. 119Indecent assault on a male4 years' hard labour21/12/0621/12/092½ months.
223Idle and disorderly12 months' hard labour4/ 3/1029/12/102 years 2 months
326Indecent assault on a male10 years' hard labour and 10 years' reformative detention17/ 3/1316/12/212½ years
437Indecent assault on males (three charges)10 years' hard labour25/ 6/24Still in prison.

Note.—Offender was born at Auckland and is the third eldest of a family of eight. He was evidently dull at school, as he passed the Third Standard only at the age of 13. At the age of 16 he was charged with the offence of vagrancy, convicted and discharged. The victims in all his offences were children varying in age from 6 to 13 years.

Case No. 2.

Number of Successive Convictions.Age of Offender when offence committed.Offence.Sentence.Sentenced (Date).Released (Date).Period at Large before arrest on Further Charge.
B. 123Theft (four charges)1 month29/10/0028/10/001 year.
224Rogue and vagabond; vagrancy3 months' hard labour 5/11/01 4/ 2/021 year 9 months
337RapeHard labour for life 1/ 2/043/12/23

Note.—Offender is a native of New Zealand. The most serious of his offences (No. 3) was committed on a girl 8½ years of age. After serving six years of his term of life imprisonment the prisoner showed signs of being mentally unsound, and in March, 1910, he was transferred to a mental hospital. He remained a patient in a mental hospital until March, 1915, when he escaped. It was afterwards ascertained that he was aware of the fact that he was about to be returned to prison as being no longer an insane person—hence his escape. After his escape he married, and subsequently served two years with the Expeditionary Force. He was returned to New Zealand as medically unfit and was arrested at Auckland and returned to prison in August, 1917. Two members of his family—a sister and a brother—have been convicted of theft and "conducting a house of ill fame."

This man was released on probation, on the certificate of an expert in mental diseases, after serving the full life term of twenty years, but soon after release gave clear indications of return to former criminal perversions, and his rearrest was ordered.

Case No. 3.

Number of Successive Convictions.Age of Offender when offence committed.Offence.Sentence.Sentenced (Date).Released (Date).Period at Large before arrest on Further Charge.
C. 125Obscene exposure3 months' hard labour19/ 6/0618/ 9/068 months.
226"6 months' hard labour15/ 5/0722/10/071 day.
326"12 months' hard labour23/10/0715/ 8/083 months.
427Wilful damage14 days' hard labour 6/11/0828/ 8/0910 months
527Obscene exposure12 months' hard labour
630Assault2 months' hard labour13/ 6/10 5/ 9/104 months.
731Obscene exposure3 months' hard labour6/ 1/11 5/ 4/116 days.
831Rogue and vagabond1 month's hard labour11/ 4/1110/ 5/111 day.
931"12 months' hard labour11/ 5/11 2/ 3/121 month.
1032Obscene language2 months' hard labour 2/ 4/12 1/ 6/128 months
1133Indecent assault on a female6 years' hard labour and 4 years' reformative detention 5/ 2/1323/ 9/192 years 1 month
1240Indecent assault on males (three charges)7 years' hard labour31/10/21Still in prison.

Note.—C. is a single man, aged 40 years, and a native of New Zealand. He is a cabinetmaker by trade and said to be an excellent tradesman. He appears to have been in trouble since he was 25 years of age, and has constantly been in prison, the majority of his offences being of a sexual nature. He is described as a highly dangerous criminal and a menace to society.

Case No. 4.