STOLEN FIREARMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 March 1917, Page 6

STOLEN FIREARMS.

00Y EMULATES DESPsHA Does. }*]{•'('?lus-; sinjvts rn Ti/XATJ-: i XSPI if A'IT. -V. [iWJi PRKSS ASSOCIATION.] ATCKLAM), Ah;ivu id. Km a i:i l ion of a yany; i. f doueradoes, as portrayed at one of ■ 'it' fora! picture shows. resulted ii! a aytaj Hft con hciny eharyad in t lit' .Juvenile ! 'oin’t wit < the i lief i i;i a yam. revolver anti a i;na at; t v of ammunition. \ aim lat .'ld, Affording t»» the police, ilio lad secured a mask :tnd made Ins \ ay al inyh! to tin* rear of a nun dealiny shop in Uoeen Street. He i-lia! h- f '(l roam: by a rainwater ]■ Mo-, am! I:■ iviay tiro ken a skyhyiii. t'iilered the shot), where he 'ocuved tin' weapons, The bo\ the!! set , ; [f {Or {lie Waitakejvi. i* a list's. Lifter briny !Ks worth of amniiiiiiium lie liirew the yin into a. creek. , Tin' Cliief Detective said iii.it Ike Jad received his unfurl una to iiisjin-aiion from pictures wise u

-bowed details of masked busnrangers. The mother was ill and I lie father, who was going to dm front, had' left the boy with relatives, who apparently could not control In in. The juvenile probation of:■unsaid that the fa I her held rat mast rong views regarding picture-,'g the charncter men i ;■ nmd, The Magistrate ; I feel jus*. strongly, but what can I do•' i’he lad was committed to she Werarua Training farm, and hm father' was ordered to pay ihc value of i In* ammunition used. Another lad, aged sixteen, in no wav known to the first buy, was charged with stealing from the saint' shot) on the same night a ride, razor, gun cleaner, revolver, packet of razor blades and other small articles, of the v.d . 1 of To, The Chief Detective said that the lad, while employed by the owner of the shop, removed the goods and the same night returned and look them a,way- lie was one of the greatest actors and most untruthful lads the Chief Detective had met in a lengthy police experience, lie was living with elderly people, ami seemed to think he could do as lie likedAll the articles had been '.■('covered with the exception of As worth of ammunition. The lad was committed to Wcrarom