A PROMISING YOUTH.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 61, 4 October 1905, Page 3

A PROMISING YOUTH.

rneyrapn Press Apsociatioci. Copyright Christchurch, October 8. Ernest Albert Frame, 14 years, a scholar of the Burnham Industrial School, licensed out to a Rangiora ! resident, admitted at the Rangiora j Court today to two charges of interfering with the railway track between Rangiora and Oxford in August. A railway spike was found wedged into a space between a length of rails on the Rangiora Oxford railway line and one of the linemen's trollies was derailed. Next month an attempt was also made to derail a train on the same line with a piece of metal weighing some pounds. The culprit was seen in the second attempt. The Magistrate said he had not power to order a boy to be returned to the Industrial School, although the case was brought under the Criminal Code Act, and the penalty was 14 years' imprisonment. He could not reasonably send the boy up for trial. The facts could be reported to the Minister of Education. The boy's employer undertook the charge of him for a week pending a reply from the Minister.