CHILDREN'S COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 7

CHILDREN'S COURT.

I THREE BOY BURGLARS. i SCHOOL BANK ROBBED. lIKADMASTKK REFUNDS CASH. , Three Miiall l>ov.*, eacli aged 11, broke , into Birkenliead School recently and stole ! money from the penny savings bank I established by the headmaster to encour-, ■ape thriftines.*. WHien they appeared' ■ hotore Mr. K. C. Cutten. S.M., and Mrs. I N. E. lerner. in the Children's Court this morning, they found it difficult to explain I why they had played the part of burglars.) "What did you want the money for?" a.-ked Mr. Cutten. "Nothing, -, Miid the smallest lad. •I wanted it to spend/' said the next. "Dunno," was the reply of the third. "This W.y (indicating "his neighbour) wanted to get his books, so he went into the school, and then came out and told us to go in.' , I "These boys broke in a door which \va« nut very securely fastened, and then went round the school rooms and cleaned up all the money they could find in the (U-ks." <aid Sergeant Cahvell. "They also took ;i tin of pineapple. The monev : taken was that which had been saved bv iho children contributing to the penny liank. Part of it was tea money. Thev searched for and found the keys to the drawers in which the money w"a« kept." "Where is the money?"' asked Mrs. lVrner. due hoy said he had put some back. I Sergeant ( alwell explained that the headmaster had refunded 13/1 to the ]*>nny bank out of his own pocket. The total Mini stolen was IS/4. After admonishing the boys, Mr. Cutten ordered that they refund ti/G each. Goods Booked to Late Employer. A girl, aged 16, was charged with obtaining groceries worth £1 14/ by false pretences. Senior Detective Hammond -aid thp girl had represented that the poods were for the person by whom she had previously been employed, and in who>e name she had previously had authority to book purchases. She had taken the poods home to her fosterparent*. It was decided that the ease should stand o\er till next Court dav. Rode On The Footpath. "This is a hip lump of a l>oy, and there i- always a danger that children will be knocked over," said Sergeant Calwell, when a boy of 1"> admitted having ridden along a footpath on his bicycle. The youth was admonished and ordered to pay co>ts.