BOY-BURGLARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 192, 16 August 1927, Page 10

BOY-BURGLARS.

OFFENCES IN DUNEDIN. HARDWARE STORE ROBBED. STOLEN .GOODS RECOVERED. (By Telegraph.—Owo Correspondent.) DUNEDIX, Monday. A week ago two boys broke into 3raithwaites, Ltd., and other premises. Later in the week detectives arrested .wo lads, who admitted a series oi hefts and took the detectives to theii plant" in a park, but it had disippeared. Yesterday there was another burglary .laving procured a rope from the adjoin -rig brewery, two boys broke a skyligb. n Messrs. Lnidlaw and Gray's store in Jattray Street and lowered themselves n. They took goods valued at £30, bu; hey left two Titles and a quantity Oi immunition behind them. This morning Detective Russell fol lowed one of the boys to Cannongate and saw him go to a clump o7 shrubs. Thcr he bad hidden the booty. The detective arrested the boy, who told him where h: -ould find the remainder of the goods After these had been recovered the live was taken to the second bov, wu confessed to participating in the robben The stolen goods consisted o-f tw. nortable gramophones, a box of gramo ihone records, an accordion, a set o boxing gloves, and a box containing a; ■•ariety of articles, among which werVnives. pairs of scissors, whistles, play n« cards, watches, stationery, electri *orch bulbs, razors and bottles of scent.