BAND OF YOUNG THIEVES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 14 April 1908, Page 7

BAND OF YOUNG THIEVES.

AUCKLAND, April 14.

A band of five boys, whose ages ranged from ten to fifteen, pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to a round of burglaries, having entered fifteen premises and stolen a number of small articles and a quantity of jewellery. Their last exploit was on Sunday, when they entered a jeweller's shop and stole jewellery valued at £50, bringing their total depredations to £110. Most of the articles were recovered when the gang was arrested, but a bag of opals, -which a boy (to vhom they were allotied) threw away as valueless, is missing. Chief Detective Marsack stated that the boys roamed the streets day and night, and were quite beyond parental control. All were committed to Burnham.