Number of Successive Convictions.Age of Offender when offence committed.Offence.Sentence.Sentenced (Date).Released (Date).Period at Large before arrest on Further Charge.
D. 115Theft6 months' probation30/ 7/01——
226Carnal Knowledge
(1.) Indecent assault on a male
(2.) Indecent assault on a male
20 years' hard labour
(1.) 2 years' reformative detention; declared habitual criminal
(2.) 3 years' reformative detention
1/ 2/1220/ 2/222 years 6 months.
338 28/ 7/24Still in prison.

Note.—D. is a native of New Zealand, aged 38 years and married. His second offence, a very serious one, was committed on a female child of 9 years, the child being subjected to great violence and raped. He was released from prison on license on 20th February, 1922, when he married a respectable woman who knew nothing of his past history. She states that he was a good husband. There is one child of the marriage, a female of 11 months. He is addicted to drink, and is said to have been under the influence of liquor when he committed his last offence. He is not a fit subject to be at liberty, as it was the merest accident that his last offence did not become as serious as that he committed in 1912. Offender has two brothers, both criminals.

Case No. 5.

Number of Successive Convictions.Age of Offender when offence committed.Offence.Sentence.Sentenced (Date).Released (Date).Period at Large before arrest on Further Charge.
E. 114Breaking, entering, and theftCommitted to Burnham26/11/00——
215AbscondingReturned to Burnham15/ 5/07——
315Breaking, entering, and theft12 months' hard labour18/ 4/0115/ 2/022 years 3 months.
419DrunkFined 5s. and costs23/ 5/04——
519"Fined 5s. and costs3/11/04 3/11/043 months.
620SodomyLife15/ 2/0521/ 6/212 years 4 months.
738(1.) Indecent assault on a male
(2.) Common assault
(1.) 10 years' hard labour
(2.) 1 year's hard labour
30/10/23
"
Still in prison.

Note.—E. is a native of New Zealand, aged 39 years and married, with one child. He is reported to suffer from injuries to the head caused by a fall from a tree when eleven years of age, and to be subject to uncontrollable fits of temper and loss of mental balance since that age. Offender was educated in Auckland, and passed the Third Standard only at the age of 13. He was committed to Burnham at the age of 10 for two years, from which institution he absconded on several occasions. According to his own statement, during his term at Burnham the practice of sodomy was fairly common, and the boys often talked about it, but in his opinion did not regard it as a serious offence. He states they were flogged for it, but did not think much of that either, because they were flogged for many other things which he knew were not serious. He says he also met boys from another industrial school who were sent to Burnham, who also did and talked about the same practice. Altogether, therefore, he knew he was doing wrong, but he will not admit that he regarded it in any way as a serious offence. In 1903 he went to sea, and states that his chief companion was a member of the Salvation Army, also a seaman. He affirms that during all the time he was at sea he never heard the offence referred to. The men talked of women but never of sodomy. From 1903 to 1905 he apparently lived a reasonably good life. In 1905 he was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released on license on the 20th June, 1921, and followed the occupation of gardener around Auckland. He married in June, 1923, and is at present serving a long sentence. Offender alleges having made arrangements to be sterilized, but states doctor refused to perform operation. Drink appears to have had some effect upon his life.

Case No. 6.

Number of Successive Convictions.Age of Offender when offence committed.Offence.Sentence.Sentenced (Date).Released (Date).Period at Large before arrest on Further Charge.
F. 112TheftTo come up when called upon 8/10/92——
212"Sent to Burnham 5/12/92——
320"7 days' hard labour28/ 4/00——
420"To come up when called upon24/10/00——
521Breaking, entering, and theft12 months' hard labour26/ 2/0121/12/013 months.
622Vagrancy3 months' hard labour3/11/0421/ 6/021 year 8 months.
724Indecent assault5 years' hard labour3/11/0423/12/079 months.
825Escaping from custody4 months' hard labour, cumulative with above17/ 5/05"
928Indecent assault7 years' hard labour 8/ 9/08 8/12/133 years 5 months.
1037"7 years' hard labour14/ 5/1720/11/226 months.
1143Indecent assault on a female (two charges)3 years' hard labour on each charge, cumulative, and declared habitual criminal 8/ 5/23Still in prison.

Note.—F. is a native of New Zealand, born in Napier, February, 1880, and is a labourer by occupation. He was convicted of theft at Napier when a boy and sent to the Burnham Industrial School, from which place he escaped on several occasions. He was discharged from the school on the 30th April, 1898, and since then has continued his criminal career, his further offences being of a sexual nature. He is given to tampering with little girls, and has on four occasions committed indecent assault of a more or less serious nature. He is undoubtedly a menace to society and not fit to be at large. Offender is a temperate man, and when out of gaol appears to have wandered about the country doing an odd day's work here and there. His parents are dead.


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