SERIES OF , CRIMES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17133, 21 June 1927, Page 8

SERIES OF , CRIMES.

YOUTH’S BUSY WEEK-END. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Tuesday. Several week-end episodes were investigated before Mr Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. A youth of 18, Leslie Joseph Murphy, pleaded guilty to converting to his own use a car valued at over £2OO, and breaking and entering a shop at Foxton and stealing two portmanteaux and contents valued at over £3O; also the theft of a stockwhip from a drover. The police stated that accused was a ward of the State, employed in Hawke’s Bay. He left Dannevirke on Saturday, secreting himself in a train waggon. On arrival at Palmerston North he appropriated the car from a public stand, and drove to Rangiotu, where, running short of petrol, he abandoned the vehicle. Proceeding to Foxton he broke into the store of Barr and Tyer, stealing a portmanteau and contents. He slept that night on the premises, and the following morning left. At the railway he purloined a stockwhip while a drover was -trucking stock. Later accused was apprehended. The charge of breaking and entering was reduced to theft. Accused was sentenced to Borstal Institute for three years. On the other charges he was convicted and discharged.