YOUTHS’ ESCAPADE

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1930, Page 2

YOUTHS’ ESCAPADE

CAR “BORROWED” AND DAMAGED [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, October 1. Three youths, Samuel Osmund Reddish, aged 19; Henry Kilkolly, aged 17; and another aged 17. whose name was suppressed, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Lower Hutt to-day. charged jointly with having converted a car. Reddish was charged also with dangerous driving, driving without a license and with having committed a breach of his probationary license by converting a car. Kilkolly was charged with driving without a license. Reddish and Kilkolly plead ed guilty to all the charges. For the other youth, Mr Watterson entered a plea of “not guilty.” Senior-Sergeant McKelvey said that on Saturday afternoon, the three youths visited the Skating Rink, after which they prowled about, the town, and obtained drink from two hotels. In the evening they took the car. Kilkolly drove to Petone, where Reddish took control. He collided with another ear in the midst of a theatre crowd

damaging that vehicle to the extent of £l5, and the converted car to the extent of about £4. The other youth had been dropped before the collision occurred. lie was practically a passenger in the car. On behalf of this youth, Mr Watterson pleaded the influence of drink, and that the youth was three years behind normal development, and easily prevailed upon by his companions. "The best thing to do with him is to grant a period of probation,” said Mr McNeil, S.M. “He is not as bad as the others, but I cannot allow this thing to go without a deterring influence.” He was admitted to proba tion for twelve months. Reddish and Kilkolly were ordered to bo detained in a Borstal Institute for a term not exceeding two years.