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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3562, 29 June 1912, Page 4

Tli? number c f youthful burglars appearing at Edinburgh Sheriff C-ourt with several charges of housebreaking against them lias almost reached an epidemic. In the case cf one batch, a group of three boys,—thirteen, twelve, and ten years of age—the youngest was admonished, while the other two, James Earl and John MTkail, residing at Newport Street, were sentenced to receive six stripes of the birch each. The fiscal said that a safe in an office at 24, Morrison ■Street, had been tampered with, while a note was left behind as follows: “Open safe, or you are dead. —Gang of death. Pay £I,OOO to-morrow night at eight o'clock.” The Sheriff: This sounds like the result of heroic criminal stories. “Is this top-floor warm in winter?" asked the prospetcive tenant. “'Yes, indeed,” said the landlord, with a reassuring manner. “On the coldest day last winter this floor»was as warm as could be.” He -didn’t explain, however, that ibis was because the roof caught fire.