BOYS STEAL GIG

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 13

BOYS STEAL GIG

SERIES OF ESCAPADES

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post")

AUCKLAND, This Day. On Monday afternoon Albert' Smith, of Penrose, left a pony and gig standing on the Great South road in the vicinity of Otahuhu, whilst he transacted, some business in the neighbourhood. On returning he found the conveyance missing, and inquiries led him to believe that two schoolboyß were responsible. Apparently the youthful joy riders set out for a prolonged tour, for after haying been seen' at Papatoetoe, the next evidence of their travels was discovered yesterday morning, when the pony and gig were found upset over a steep clay, filling on the Great South road at Takanini Stream bridge. The horse had made vain efforts to clamber, out of its predicament, but it was apparently hampered by the harness, and when found it was dead. It lay underneath the gig, the shafts of which were pointing skywards. The accident evidently happened at about midnight, for shortly after that hour a resident of Takanini, having his suspicions aroused by a commotion in the horse paddock adjoining his house, made investigations, and found that a horse, bridle, and saddle had been stolen.

The next appearance of the young adventurers was at Papakura. Early yesterday morning the public school headmaster (Mr. Elliott) noticed two boys riding madly up and down a newly-form-ed footpath in front of the school. On being questioned by him they abandoned the horse and made off, and nothing is known of their subsequent movements. The horse was secured and later was claimed by its owner.