"PUSH" VENDETTA.
REMARKABLE STORY,
BOYS CHARGED WITH MURDER,
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)
MELBOURNE, Friday.
The "Push" vendetta which recently was so much iv evidence in the city has affected juveniles.
Two boys named Smith and Flynn, agedfsixteen and fourteen years respectively, were committed for trial on a charge of murdering a third boy named Worseldine, aged 13$ years.
Evidence was given that Worseldine was regarded as the "pimp" of one "push," which accused's "push" was seeking out to fight. Accused met him, and Smith and Flynn, armed with a revolver, chased Worseldine, who was found with two bullet wounds in the head. The accused told their companion that they shot him in the leg, and that the mob had better break up.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13985, 22 November 1919, Page 5
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