"JOY-RIDER" ADMONISHED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 9

"JOY-RIDER " ADMONISHED

SCHOOLBOY'S ESCAPADE. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] CHRISTCHTJBCH. Sunday. The youngest member of the party which took a motor-car from Sumner on a recent evening for a " joy-ride," appeared before Mr. :Widdows6n, S.M., in the Juvenile Court yesterday. He was charged with using the motor-car unlawfully. The eldest member of the party, Oliver Craddock, was fined £10 in the Magistrate's Court on Friday. The car was taken from a garage about midnight, and when the -party reached Riccarton it broke down and the patty had to abandon.it and struggle h'-me : to Sumner on bicycles. The boy'who appeared this morning . was an overgrown lad of 16, a scholar at the local secondary school.

Mr. E. W. White, who appeared for accused, said the facts were admitted, but there were one or two extenuating circumstance's. There was orie. " ringleader" in the matter. The accused had been a day boy at" the" Christchurch school, and would now become'a-boarder so that he would be under strict pline.The boy's mother said he had never given any trouble before, and his school reports had always been excellent. The magistrate said that as accused had such a good character and had been given such good reports at school hf thought that, without minimising the seriousness of the offence, he need only admonish and discharge him. .