CHILDREN'S COURT.
BREAKING AND ENTERING. BOY AND GIRL INVOLVED. Two cases involving the breaking and entering of a shop were dealt with in tho Children's Court on Saturday. A boy of 14 admitted being unlawfully on premises in Dominion Road. Sergeant Turner said the boy had gone tD tho. shop on a recent afternoon and had obtained entrance through a window. He had opened a drawer, evidently under the impression that it wai « till. Caught in the act, he was detained until the- arrival at the police. The boy was placed under supervision for two years. " You have been running off the rails a bit," said the magistrate, Mr. E. C. Cutten, when a girl of 15 years admitted a charge of wilfully damaging a shop in Great North Road. It was stated tho girl had gone to the shop, where she used to work, one night and had broken two back windows. The occupant had heard her and struck at her ankles with a broom as she was standing on tiie sill. The girl ran away but the police arrested her later. She had said she wanted tp go to sleep in the shop. It was considered she was not quite normal. The girl was committed to the caro of the Child Welfare Department.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19799, 21 November 1927, Page 11
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