Boys Try to Burn School

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 158, 9 July 1935, Page 10

Boys Try to Burn School

SET TWO FIRES AFTER CAUSING 3000 DOLLARS DAMAGE BOOKS TORN, DESKS BROKEN, PICTURES SMEARED. Antipathy to lessons and class-rooms, which expressed itself in such fashion that it will cost the City of New York 3000 dollars to repair the damage, caused the arrest of two nine-year-old lads on charges of juvenile delinquency. They were Gustave Curran, of 509 Dean Street and Ernest Davis of 395 Sterling Place, Brooklyn. They were arrested at 6.30 p.m. after the noise made in damaging the interior of the annex of Public School 9, known as P.S. .111, Sterling Place and Vandebilt Avenue, had resulted in the calling out of 25 policemen. .Searching the building, which houses the primary grades of the school, policemen found on each of the four floors a litter of torn books and papers. Desks in many classrooms had been broken, ink had been smeared on the portraits of Presidents throughout the buildings, the office of the principal had been invaded. On the top floor two fires had been started, one iu a classroom and one in a cloakroom. The police were called after a neighbour had heard the noise and had notified Sergeant Harry Kressley of the Bergen .Street station. Remembering that there had been reports of vandal ism from the school, he sent a call for assistance, whereupon the 25 policemen surrounded the building and moved through it from basement to the top The Curran and Duxis boys were found hilling in a closet, on the tup floor. They admitted being present whi’ii the damage was caused, but said they had been taken to the school by four older boys who escaped, the police, said. John Fletcher, custodian of the building, was called from his home by the, police, as was the principal. A. J. .Corey; Fletcher, alter a quick inspee lion, said 25 classrooms in the building appeared to have been damaged to some extent. He expressed the belief that the cost of repairs would run substantially above the 3000 dollar estimate made by the police. England’s "Myriad Celts’’ Aii annuity of fsi|() i<> establish O'Donnell Lcdijics in ( rlli>- Historv and I .it ei:i I uro has been left in rotation to th'- iini\ ersities of Oxford, Wnb’s, Edinburgh. Irrlaiiii, and TriiHv College, Dublin, l»y Mr Charles James O'Donnell, of W':i\<r|p\ Hill. Camber lev . Surrey, and Ilans Crr.srnl, London. who died last December, aged 85, leaving estate in Great. Britain valued at £21,815. Mr O ’Donnell’s will states; “I believe the Celtic element iu England to be quite nine-tenths of the whole. During recent centuries myriads and even millions of Welshmen mid s> Ai3d Irish have poured into Ent'la nd. *