“DEADWOOD DICKS”
YOUTHFUL BURGLARS
lure of the bush leads to
TROUBLE,
Press Association
AUCKLAND Alarch 12.
Emulation of a gang of desperadoes, as portrayed at one of the local pic-ture-house.?. resulted in a boy aged fifteen appeal ing in tho Juvenile Court charged with theft of a gun, a revolver, and a quantity of ammunition, valued at £B. According to the police, the lad secured a mask and made his way at ui-dit to the rear of a gun-dealing shop in D'iccn street. Ho climbed round by a rain-water pipe, and having broken a skylight, entered the simp, where bo secured tho weapons. a* bov then set off for . tno Waitakere-i Ranges. After firing 12s woith «i ammunition, ho threw the gun m o a The chief-detective said the lad had received an unfortunate inspiration from tlie picture, which gave details of masked bushrangers at workmother was dead, and his father, ' was going to the front, had loft him wbh relatives, who apparently could not control him. .. , ni ,. Tho juvenile ; probation officer said tho father holdjotbor strong views regarding pictures ol the character mentioned. Tho magistrate: I fool just ns strongly, but what can I do? v The lad was committed to the avcrnroa Training Farm. The father was ordered to pay the value or tlio ammunition used. Another lad, aged sixteen, m no way known to the first boy, was charged with stealing from the same shop on the same night a rifle, razor, gtmclcaner, revolver, packet of razor blades, and other small articles, of the total value of £fi. Tho chief-detective aaid that the while employed by the owner of the shop, removed some goods, and the same night returned and took them away. He was one of tho greatest actors and a most untruthful lad the chief-detective had met in a lengthy police experience. He was living with elderly people, and seemed to think he could do as lie liked. All the articles had been recovered, with the exception of 2s worth of ammunition. The lad was committed to Weraroa,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9607, 13 March 1917, Page 5
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