A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.
HOUSE-BREAKING AND IHteSE-
STEALING,
(BY TELEGE,APH.--PBES3 ASSOCUtION-.)
/ TiMABTJ, Monday. AT the !rJ,M. : Courfc this '■'■, mprning; a lad of fourteen years.• of age ; was remanded on a charge of house/ breaking and horse-stealing. He has admitted the offences and fclVa'b 'bfc had been an inmate of the Industrial Sohool, from :i which he had bolted two years ago.' He had since been "swagffinjjf" and "" knocking: abqu t," 4«d i- ■; Utely was in the employ of a farmer at Malcihir kibi. On Tuesday he broke into a house during the ' absence /of the otrner and took away £3 in money, On Friday, evening he rbdo away to Timaru on one of hia employer's horses, turning it adi ift; on ; reaching town. He^ was arrested next day ni Tlmaru Tailway station while waiting | for a train to continue his journey North, . The prisoner appears to he rather proud of hie achievement. ■"' ' :
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 202, 28 August 1888, Page 2
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151A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL. Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 202, 28 August 1888, Page 2
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