“TRIANGLE GANG”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12869, 23 May 1936, Page 5

“TRIANGLE GANG”

YOUTHFUL BURGLARS. ALLEGED IDENTIFICATION WRITTEN CARD LEFT IN HOME. FOUR LADS TO ANSWER CAR CONVERSION CHARGES. (Press Association). WELLINGTON, May 22. It is probable the solution to a .sar-s ios of burglaries that have been, troubling Ivarori resident lately, lies in the tracing by detectives of several boys, each under sixteen, who will be called upon to answer charges of car conversion.

It is stated that the final process rA' detection hinged upon the identification of writing oil a dircj left in a house and signed , by the “Triangle Gantg,” the belief being that.six hoys woiikod in parties o.f three, using converted cars to assist them in covering the ground quickly and transporting . the stolen property. , Tha success of the recent uninvited visitoiß to Karori might he in the fact that some householders have been called to the telphone and heard the receiver replaced a,t the other end without any conversation. This ruse would enable ah intending intrudeil to ascertain if the house was occupied. A large number of cats have been converted lately, and it D significant that- as l soon as the police enquiries bore fruit, the offences were discontinued. A motoi l car was seen outside a. Karori house on the night it was burgled. The householder was awiiy, and a. person was standing on the verandah. It was learned to-day that a polite note left in the house broidlhtmatters to a climax. Ihe note thanked the resident for a happy and siiecessfu 1 time the intruders had enjoyed.

Tho visitors; however, had overst:pp"d the mark. They had ‘Used a detention card from a Wellington school, and the writing was identified as that of a boy who had been expelled six weeks previously.

In somo cases, residents have b-on tho victims of senseless vandalism, the damage to furniture often being more costly than the actual property stolen.