ORGANISED GANG
FOUR WELLINGTON IYOUTHS CONVERSION OF CAR JEMMY AND LOADED TUBING [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WANGANUI. Wednesday Described as an organised gang of Wellington youths by Detective J. Murry, David Ross, aged 16, Eric Albert Collins, aged 18, Albert Edward Morris, aged 18, and Robert \\ alter Page, aged 18, were charged before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day with converting a car at Hawera to their own use. Collins, Morris were committed to a Borstal institution for three years and Ross to the car® of a welfare officer for two years. The youths converted a car at Wellington on Saturday night and drove to Wanganui and thence on Sunday to Hawera, where they converted a second car. In the car they had a jemmy, nails flattened to operate car switches, and rubber tubing loaded at one end with solder A letter found in the possession of one of the youths suggested that he should do a "job" at Masterton. For conversion of the Wellington car the accused will appear at Palmerston North to-morrow, when they will also be charged with the theft of benzine at Te Horo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23047, 26 May 1938, Page 20
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192ORGANISED GANG New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23047, 26 May 1938, Page 20
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