YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS
ACTIVITIES IN MELBOURNE WIDE POLICE CAMPAIGN PLANNED MELBOURNE, May 17. Detectives are planning a wide campaign to break up a youthful gang which has declared war on all police The gang, originally of 12 member! aged between 17 and 24, calls itself “The Saints.” Every member haj tattooed on his left wrist an inch and a-half reproduction of the haloed “Saint” figure made familiar through the books of Leslie Charteris.
Three members are already in Pentridge goal, and the other ninfl are being shadowed day and night. The police believe that one membei went to Sydney to organise another branch of the gang. Through a cyclo. styled newspaper, gang members are kept informed of the doings of tha leaders. " One member who declared war on “ all Johns ” was sentenced to gaol for a month. Another stole skates valued at £IOO. A third earned £8 a week by shoplifting, and eight others have criminal records.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26774, 18 May 1948, Page 5
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