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CHARGES AOAINST YOUTHS (By Telfiernpl.ii'—P'.-ess Association.) i •: ; j .; I :feHBIS-'EGHUBe.H,-- t nuiie.ls. That :.sai! .c.-J(reilsJfig;,.;Kit!i-.-SeHgaito pi ay bo' 'an'".operatioii: of/sortie dajlger was proved by the experience of three young men who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to a scries of charges of breaking and entering and theft. The most serious charge was that of blowing open a safe in the office of W. W. Keighley and Co. Detective-Sergeant O'Brien, for the prosecution, said that by all accounts one of the accused was lucky to be alive, as he stayed in the room when, the charge was fired, and too heavy a charge was used. The detective said that in a statement made by one of the men it was stated that when the charge was about to be tired one man left the bbuildiug and the other stayed in the room. When the safe was blown up the door flew across the room over the man's Jjead. . • . . .Two of the accused were Bonald Patrick Baxter (21) and William Lewis Philp (IS), both described as labourers. They were committed for sentence. The other accused was a juvenile agod 17.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 140, 16 June 1933, Page 13
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193USE OF GELIGNITE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 140, 16 June 1933, Page 13
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