YOUTHS CAPTURED
ADVENTURES IN BUSH
♦ (Per Press Association.) MARTINBOROUGH, January 20. Two youths, who decamped from their employment last week and created a sensation in the Pirinoa district, were captured on Saturday by Constable Sleeth of Martinborough, in a woolshed, where they had slept the night before. When arrested, the boys were thoroughly exhausted, and the first question they asked was: “Can we have a sleep?” and at midday they were still sleeping off the effects of the ex-' haustion. They were not in possession of the arms they stole earlier in the week, having left them at a camp in the scrub.
They came out into the open on Friday and opened a private mail bag, extracting the contents. Evidently in the search for food, they broke into the house of a former employer, collected supplies of tea, sugar, bread and butter, and before leaving wrote the following note: “We thank dear Joe for what we borrowed and will always have a bullet ready on you. Philip and Brown.” Extensive search had been continuing in the bush but the boys had slipped through by another track. The boys were captured without any fuss, as had been feared. They had plenty of food but were sorely in need of sleep. They will appear before the Juvenile Court to-day.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1930, Page 3
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