JUVENILE OFFENDERS

Evening Star, Issue 17767, 15 September 1921, Page 2

JUVENILE OFFENDERS

A BATCH OF FIVE. Five boys, whoso ages ranged ‘.from ten to fourteen years, were before Mr Widdowson, S.M., in the. Juvenile Court yes- 1 torday afternoon on various charges. HIS UNCLE’S GIG LAMP. ‘The first was a fourteen-year-old lad, and ho pleaded guilty to stealing a gig lamp valued at 50s. It appeared that the lamp was taken from a railway truck, but tho father of tho boy, when he found what had been done,. thrashed him and mado him return tho lamp. 'Strange to say, it was afterwards discovered that tho stolen property belonged to the boy’s uncle.—The accused was admonished and discharged, STONE-THROWING. Two boys, cousins, aged respectively thirteen and eleven years, pleaded guilty to wilfully breaking a street lamp. The Senior Sergeant said that the young culprits threw stones and pine cones at the electric Iflmps in Roslyn. There had. been several complaints regarding broken lamps in this district—Tho boys wore admonished and discharged, and tho respective fathers ordered to pay the amount of the damage (395) between them. -A BICYCLE JOY RIDE.

A boy of thirteen years admitted having taken a. bicycle from where it had been loft in a street in Mornington and indulging in a ride by standing on the pedal. He hid the machine that night, but, his conscience pricking him, he took it back next morning.Tho mother, In answer to the magistrate, said the boy was a little beyond her control, and the father did not take any interest in him. “ It's the father who should get the ‘ doing,’ ” she added. Tho magistrate adjourned tlio matter for twelve months, the boy to be under tho supervision and control of the junior probation officer, who was to have_ the power to remove him from his homo if ho thought it necessary. GLOBE STEALING. Two schoolmates —one ten and the other eleven years old—admitted stealing electric globes 'from a motor car which had been left in a shed at Mornington. The Sub-inspscteor said that, tho same boys had committed a similar offence about three weeks ago, but tho owner of the car did not wish any action taken. Tho father of the younger boy said that his son had been told by his companion to go and take the lamps. Ho had made his boy pay for the damage out of tho contents of his money boxThis matter also was adjourned for twelve months, the boys to bo subject to tho probation officer’s supervision. The fathers were ordered to pay the damage (14s) between them, and to see that the boys were kept apart. .