CAREER OF CRIME
BOYS BEFORE COURT. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, July 8. Detectives arrested three boys, one aged fifteen and two others a little younger, who appeared before Mr McKean, S.M., at a special sitting of the Children’s Court. Two of the boys admitted they wilfully set fire to the Normal School on Sunday. Ail three admitted breaking and entering the counting house of George Kennedy on June 22 and stealing a first aid outfit and two shillings. All three pleaded guilty to setting fire to Kennerley’s storehouse. Chief Detective Cummings said two of the boys admitted setting fire to a motor car tyre at the rear of the Normal School at 3.45 p.m. on Sunday; also setting fire to six other places in Auckland; and having given twelve malicious false fire alarms. One of them recently broke into a garage and stole a revolver. Two of them were working out in a stable and the other on a butcher’s cart. The father of one boy was in a mental hospital. Another boy’s father was ill and out of work. The third boy’s father was a blacksmith. Accused were remanded in the custody of the welfare officer until the next sitting of the Children’s Court.
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Southland Times, Issue 20225, 9 July 1927, Page 7
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206CAREER OF CRIME Southland Times, Issue 20225, 9 July 1927, Page 7
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