YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3098, 30 July 1913, Page 10

YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.

At the Juvenile Court this morning three email bovs came before Mr K. C. Cutton, S.M., on a charge that on Sunday they broke and entered the shop of i’nillip Levy, tobacconist, in Karangahape road, and stole £3 10s in money, two sovereign cases, two pocket knives, a cigarette holder, a brass matchbox and a matchbox pipe lighter, two boxes of wax matches, three packets of cigarettes, and a packet of cigarette tobacco. iho story of the adventure was told by the boys. One, aged 11 years, met the other two lads (brothers aged 10 and nine years respectively) on Sunday morning and explained to them the possibilities of the burglary. The three lads went up the lane to the back door of Levy’s shop and by means of a broken spade prised the back door till the hasp of the bolt inside was burst oil’. This allowed the door to open about an inch, exposing an iron bar which was lying in the socket across the back of the door. With a piece of tin they lifted the bar out of its socket, and so gained an entrance to the shop There they took the articles mentioned. After inquiring into the circumstances of the parents and the children ids Worship committed the eldest to the Burnham Industried 'School and the others to the Takapuna School with a recommendation that tho latter two be allowed out on probation in the meantime.