YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.
A COOL. THEFT. Thomas Scorange and Leslie Chaney, two small boys aged each nine years, . pleaded guilty to a charge of having burgled a wai'ehouse belonging to the Farniers' Cooperative Association,' when charged at the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. ' These youthful burglars scaiea a fence, broke into the warehouse, packed a quantity of cigarettes, tobacco, twine, matches and lollies into parcels, and made their escape by the door. Master Scorange had been an inmate of the Burniham Industrial School previously, and was boarded out nine months ago to his father. The Magistrate ordered that he should be sent back to the Industrial School, the father to pay 2s 6d a week towards his support. The other boy, Chaney, for whom Mr Weston appeared, had not been, before the Court before. The Magistrate directed that his father, should take him home and punish him severely.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12621, 2 October 1901, Page 3
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