CHARGES AGAINST YOUTH
The drinking of stolen sherry in an air-raid shelter last Friday, threatening a tobacconist with a knife, and two thefts were alleged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday against Stanley Lawrence Hawkins, a message boy, aged 18,. who was charged with being drunk in Panama Street, and with stealing three packets of cigarettes from one shop and two cakes of soap from another shop. 'Senior-Sergeant G. Paine said that Hawkins stole a bottle of sherry from a delivery van in the street, and he and another boy drank it in an airraid shelter. After that he stole the soap and the cigarettes and took the cigarettes to a tobacconist to sell. When the tobacconist refused Hawkins threatened him with a knife, and the tobacconist chased him. The youth was caught by the police. He was already under supervision of the Child Welfare Officer for robbery from a bank.
Hawkins, who had pleaded guilty to the charges on Saturday, was remanded until Wednesday for medical examination.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 2
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