Christchurch Boy Aged Ten Owns Up to 22 Burglaries
CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. at 2 o’clock this , doming while trudging back '’*• headquarters under a big morella in the pouring rain, a ® ri 9hton youngster, 10 years 2? k ** eon fessed to a series of urb rßlar i** ln the * ieasicle Bub ‘
T b °y ■was not staying at home had established himself in a *H'h „r urn iBhed 8 hed house, outside of frot tthl«h Iralice kept watch. It was , ome however, that the police ijooty, UUs remarkable array of
AN ARREST AND AN ESCAPE (Special to THE SUN-)
Nineteen volumes of Shakespeare, and a large number of other books, including a lexicon of Freemasonry, and
“Maxims of the Wise and Good, 9s. in cash in a canvas bag, cigarettes, pocket knives, cash boxes from gas meters, scarves, pinchers, sweaters, gloves, a dinner service, and a large file. After making his confession over a cup of tea at the police station the lad was returned to his home at 4 a.m. He has now disappeared again after robbing his wjother’s gas meter of four shillings.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 June 1927, Page 1
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