YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 206, 30 August 1921, Page 4

YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.

ENTER ELEVEN PREMISES. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. Four youths, whose ages ranged from 10 to IS years, were committed to the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon by Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., for having committed a series of burglaries of city premises. All four pleaded guilty. Two, Roy Martin and Harold Robert Conway, were represented by Mr. Sullivan. The magistrate decided" that the names of the other two should not be published, as they were under 21 years, and had not appeared in Court before. Representatives of eleven shops and factories gave evidence of goods having 'been missed from their premises, and also of indications found of forced entrances; also in several cases of the premises having been successfully imrgled twice or even three times. Written statements made by the accused to Detectives Filzgibbon and ■Sullivan covering all the charges as well as a good many more were read. From these and the charges it was shown that in come cases all four were present when the burglaries were in progress, while in others three, two, and one. Tallerinan and Co.'s (Eastern merchants) premises were visited three times on Saturday and .Sunday afternoons last month. Among the goods stolen were toys, silk stockings, necklaces, mouth organs, electric torches, hand-mirrors, and a watch, to a total value of £30. The Murray Shoe Co. in Cook Street was visited twice by night, all of the intruders helping themselves to boots to fit themselves. Other places entered and the goods taken were Motrin and Fenwick, wholesale ironmongers, a double-bar-relled shot-gun, two pea-rifles, and (i/ in money: Buchanan's pastrycook shop in Symonds Street, cakes " and soft drinks, also money and keys: Arnett and Skelton's hairdressing and tobacconist's shop. Customs Street, sigarettes, tobacco and pipes to the vahie of £14: GeoTge Tutt, hatter and mercer, Symonds Street, goods and money to the value of £6 5/. L. Marks and" Co., bag manufacturers, Chancery Street, was entered, but nothing was taken, hence the charge was confined to one of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crimp. Other places burgled were E. Porter and Co., ironmongers, Karamrahape Road; Smith and Brown, upholsterers, Symonds Street; E. J. Howie, pasirycook, Symonds Street: and Joseph Worthington. A portion of the stolen property was recovered from the homes of the" lads. One of the accused, in his statement, said that he had told his parents a falsehood regarding the new pair of boots he was wearing.