YOUTHS’ CYCLES DAMAGED

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27150, 21 September 1953, Page 8

YOUTHS’ CYCLES DAMAGED

Detonators Attached To Dynamos MINOR INJURIES CADSO (New Zealand Press WELLINGTON, September » Detonators connected to th* of bicycle dynamo systems wnaj owners of the bicycles were attenw a film screening at Upper Saturday evening caused mirwr ■ juries to three youths. The pou« inquiring into the incidents. When Jonathan Cass, aged n. Ward street. Upper Hutt, tool bicycle from an alcove in Ru? 8 ?} I *, near the theatre, he noticed ” wiring attached to it. His dnw Nicholas Cass, aged 14, held own bicycle and to give his BN O light, spun the front wheel. The headlamp burst in the yow boy’s face, and he was cut in 12 places. . x An examination revealed that B® onator had been placed inn* lamp, which was perforated w blast. An unexploded detontwr found connected to the other This detonator, hqwever, was **•*" on the ground. A motorist took the two yw to their home. , _ John Gabites, aged 15, of had left his bicycle outside the Hutt Post Office. When he mow® an explosion caused cuts to ni« and a leg, and damage to the of another youth, David who lives at the post office rw*®’ One of two nine-year-old oojni were passing, John Shramkay, tion street, also suffered a smau A detonator had been the rear light of the bicycle. . Residents of the area heard a , detonation soon after the seco*J®’ dynamo apparatus on a ploded as a man was ped** the main street. After di®nou D the cyclist resumed his