“PENNY DREADFUL" LITERATURE
A CHRISTCHURCH BOY IN TROUBLE (By Telegraph—Special to Mail) CURISTCUURCH, April 8. “i have found over 100 Nelson Leo defective stories in this boy’s posses-; sion,” said the probation officer at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday concerning a lad of 15 years who was charged with stealing two pairs 01, ladies’ Iwots valued at £2 10s. Accused clainibed through the window' of a bouse in Gloucester Street during the absence of the occupants and abstracted the boots. The probation _ officer explained that Lite lad was evidently well steeped in detective lore of the niy dreadful typo. He had actualept an index of the characters m the Nelson Lee talcs. The boy was, employed in the Rost and Telegraph Office and bis family was respectable. The case was adjourned for a year.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 10 April 1922, Page 4
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