BOYS IN TROUBLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 7

BOYS IN TROUBLE

SERIES OF PETTY THEFTS CASES AT AUCKLAND [ Special " Chronicle ” Service. ] AUCKLAND,-June 18. Mother, father and sister went to the races and the boys were hard put to it to amusfi themselves. Finally they raided a few houses in the neighbourhood and made a collection of watches, field glasses, chocolates, a mouth organ, crackers, and cigarette cards and books. Two lads, aged 14 and 13, appeared at the Children’s Court to-day. In a sworn statement one of them said that, as his family had gone out for the day, he got his friend to come over and “play.” At about ten o’clock they rang the doorbell of a neighbour’s house to see if anyone was home. No one answered, so they climbed through a window and got some cigarette cards and crackers. This easy success made them try two other houses and the hauls included chocolates and field glasses. They looked in all tho drawers and cupboards in the houses.

A few nights later one of them, he said, went to a house at night and collected some cigarette cards, and he also entered the home of a playmate one afternoon and took a money-box which contained about £l. The money was spent on lollies and pictures. The Magistrate committed the younger boy to the care of the Superintendent of Child Welfare and put the elder one under supervision for two years.