YOUNG EVIL-DOERS
Magistrate Blames Gang Instinct
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 7
Taking the view that the boys had acted rather from some gang instinct than from any individual criminal intent, Mr. H. P. Lawny, S.M., in the Juvenile Court yesterday imposed substantial restrictions on the freedom of seven boys, aged between 14 and 17, who appeared before him charged with numerous car conversions, the breaking and entering of 12 houses and the theft of cycles, money and globes.
Seven of the cars taken were stated to belong to doctors. The total value of the property not recovered and damage done was in the vicinity of £lOO.
The boys were placed under the supervision of the Child Welfare Office for two years and forbidden to associate with one another, to drive a motor vehicle of any Lind or bo away from their homes later than 8.30 p.m. in summer and 7.30 p.m. in winter unless accompanied by responsible adults. Their parents are to undertake the restitution of the £lOO.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 148, 8 June 1936, Page 9
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