CHEWED GELIGNITE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 5

CHEWED GELIGNITE.

LAN ADVENTUROUS JUVENTLE. j j COMMITTED TO INSTITUTION. ■ Some things as strange as fiction are , heard at times in the Juvenile Court by i the privileged few permitted to remain : when the juvenile wrong-doers' deprej dat ions are being recounted. • Many tears were shed this morning j when two little boys aged seven and j nine respectively were ushered into the i presence of Mr. J. W. Povnton, S.M. A j constable told how the fads had taken a few shillings from the pockets of a , man's coat in the dressing shed at VieI toria Park. One of the lads had ventured onboard j a launch, and, gaining access to the i cabin per medium of an open window, he -found a stick of gelignite. This cviI dently appealed to him as a tasty mor- | sel and he proceeded to chew it. The ; result of the mastication was not | stated, but the boy retained sufficient [enterprise to steal some rowlocks before leaving the vessel. Not wishing to con-. I vict the boys of theft so early in life, jthe magistrate committed them to the j receiving home, since they were deemed ,to be under insufficient control. It wns ; rather a study in psychology to see the j mother weeping hysterically", and one of I the lads also crying, whilst the elder boy stood dry-eyed, regarding the reporters at their table with something of the same stony glare that is common with the offender in the dock making up his mind to ask afterwards to have Ilia "name kept out."