"CORNERED."
"IS THAT YOU, NOKMAN "
BOY IN GIRL'S ATHfiE,
AUCKLAND, This Day.
The police at Takapuna, suspicious of tlie movements of a* girl, demanded -tin investigation of her belongings, and found in her possession jt-wellery resembling utricles stole~ from houses.
The police matron •»»$ about to search the prisoner wh'en a policeman, struck by a certain resemblance, asked "Is that you, Norman?" A boyish voice, accompanied l»y tears, admitted that he was identified The boy is fifteen years old. He was arrested in the South' Island weeks ago for thefts at Weraroa .Training Farm. He escaped from citstody at Wellington, after being com-, fflitted for thefts at Napier and else ? \vliere. He reached Auckland well cbessed and in possession of a considerable sum of money. He was be-' fore the Juvenile Court here la-st Saturday and committed to the local Home for Boys, from ■which, he deserted. When arrested i*e was clotliexl in well-made, fashionable female attire.—Press Assn. . -
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Northern Advocate, 16 August 1919, Page 2
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