YOUNG ROGUES AT WORK
WANTOH DESTRUCTION OF GOODS [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 12. Disappointed, after breaking into a clothing factory, at not being able to steal the clothing they wanted, two youths deliberately and wantonly damaged cloth and wool valued at £IOO. Admissions to this effect were made by Arnold Colin Barker (17) and Ernest Edward Davies (19), both labourers, who were committed to-day for sentence. The manager of one of the firms that suffered said' the rolls of cloth had been undone and draped round the interior of the building, and 338 beads of wool had been cut through, and 126 others damaged by being strewn around tno floor. In addition, 280 yards of flannel and 281 yards of shirting had been hacked tlirough and utterly ruined. Accused left a message: “ We are quits now,” although neither had been employed by the firm before. One said the only reason they did the damage was disappointment at not being able to steal any clothing.
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Evening Star, Issue 21100, 12 May 1932, Page 8
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166YOUNG ROGUES AT WORK Evening Star, Issue 21100, 12 May 1932, Page 8
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