SERIES OF THEFTS BY BOYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16920, 5 August 1918, Page 4

SERIES OF THEFTS BY BOYS.

-a* NIGHTS IN RAILWAY CARS. Two runaway boys, each a 3 ed about 13 who were discovered bidin; under thi seat of a carriage prior to the departure of the it.'U'iua express on Wednesday last, appeared before Mr. E. D. Musley,*S.M.. in the Juvenile Offenders Court on' Saturday on Mveral chains if theft, involving goods of a total value of £20. It was stated that the boy* left then- homes in Ponsonby with onlv a few pence. They went in the direction of Henderson, visitmj ramus houses, from which thev-tole main irlicles. including a Uc\\le,'a pair of zold-nuuiied spectacles, ' padlock.-, and Joor mats. At Henderson thev padlocked he bicycle to a fence and went to sleep n a railway carriage. During the night he carnage was brought into Auckland m.l the boys spent the dav in the cite', telling the spectacles lor one shilling with •vhicH they bought food Thev vUited a actory. and stole „ number 'of electric ight fittings and an electric fan. They ater boarded a motor-boat and took a *t of accumulators. At night they slept n a railway carriage .it the \u,k!a!-d si. 'on yard, and the following m.-mmg atempted to get away by the Rvtorua ex 'ress. but were discovered Thev were landed over to the polue. who. after hear ng a confession, recovered most of the tolen property. The bicvele was found till padlocked to the fence One of the »oys was out on license from an nidusrial school, and was ordered to be reurned to the institution. The other boy fa* placed on probation for four months', nth a stipulation that he receive a thrashne at the hands of the juvenile probation 'fncor and remain at the probation homo-