WANTON DAMAGE
CLOTH AND WOOL DESTROYED ACTION OF DISAPPOINTED THIEVES. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 12. Disappointed, after breaking into a clothing factory, at not being able to steal the clothing they wanted, two youths deliberately and wantonly damaged cloth and wool valued at £IOO. Admissions to this effect were made by Arnold Colin Barker, aged 17, and Ernest Edward Davies, aged 19, both labourers, who were committed to-day for sentence. The manager of one of the firms that suffered said the rolls of cloth had been undone and draped round the interior of the buildings, and 338 heads of wool had been cut through, and 126 others damaged by being strewn around the floor. In addition, 280 yards of flannel and 281 yards of shirting had been hacked through and utterly ruined. The accused left a message: We arc quits now." although neither had been employed by the firm before. One said the only reason they did the damage was disappointment at not being able to steal any clothing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21643, 13 May 1932, Page 5
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171WANTON DAMAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21643, 13 May 1932, Page 5
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