YOUTH’S ESCAPADE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3286, 4 March 1926, Page 11

YOUTH’S ESCAPADE

WERAROA TRAINEE IN TROUBLE

Licensed out to a farmer at Maretiri, Albert Robert Wilcoxsen, aged IS a Weraroa training farm boy, stole £l7 5/- worth of personal effects from his employer, took a horse saddle and bridle, and rode to Foxton. Abandoning the horse there, he travelled by train to Christchurch and was subsequently arrested at Ranglora on a charge of false pretences and sentenced Vto two years in the Borstal Institute. Meanwhile the Palmerston North police got into communication with the Christchurch authorities, with the result thajt the youth was brought back hero to answer two further charges. This is briefly the history of Wilcoxsen as outlined by Senior-Sergeant O’Grady in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when accused pleaded gutllty to absconding from the licensed service of William Jewell at Maretirh Foxton, on January 22; and to stealing on the same date a gold bangle, a tweed overcoat, a shaving outfit, a pair of borgue shoes, an attache case, a .fountain pen and a silver, pencil case < of the total value of £l7 5/-, the property of hiis employer.

The Senior-Sergeant added that all the articles with the exception of the shaving outfit had been recovered. No charge was being brought for the house, saddle and bridle.

The Magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in ordering accused to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months > observed that it was no use adding to the sentence which had already been imposed as he supposed the youth would be kept for trio full term at the Institute-