BOY BURGLARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 15, 20 January 1919, Page 4

BOY BURGLARS

ESCAPEES EROM STOKE TRAINING FARM!-' THEFTS AT RICHMOND AND NELSON, On Friday three boys escaped from the Stoke Training Farm, their names being Reginald John Massey, ag®d' 12, Honi Day, aged 13} and Robert lP; McLaren, aged, 10. They made Iherr way to Richmond;, where they brokejtnto the Railway Station and Mr Hartley’s store, stealing money and, goods. On Saturday they committed , further thefts at Stoke, and thereafter the trio separated. Day and McLaren on Saturday evening applied at- the Richmond Station for tickets to Nelson, and the stationmaster being suspicious that they had been concerned in the robbery at the station, detained them, and' they were subsequently handed over to the authorities. . . On iSaurday evening Mr H. Cooper, baker, of Gloucester-street, reported to the police that four £1 notes and £1 in silver had been taken from the tilt in his shop. A clue was picked up from some boys who had seen a boy leave Mr Cooper’s shop, and Constable Hardy .subsequently arrested Massey in: Russell-street. Articles found in the boys’ possessionshowed that they had been connected ’ with the robberies, and they confessed their guilt. They have been returned to the Boys’ Training Farm.