ASTOUNDING STORY
BOY’S MANY THEFTS
EIGHTEEN CHARGES ADMITTED. ENCOURAGED BY HIS AUNT. (By Telegraph.—**ress Association.* CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. An astounding story of crime and Incitement to crime was revealed In the Children’s Court this / morning, when a 17-ycar-old boy pleaded guilty to 18 charges of / theft, Involving £IOO, and his aunt, Elsie Martha Dennis Wright, pleaded guilty to four charges of receiving goods stolen by the child, knowing same to have been dishonestly obtained. The circumstances outlined by the police revealed that the boy was a daring thief, and that his aunt encouraged him In his crimes and benefited by them. The woman was sentenced to six months’ Imprisonment, with hard labour. The boy was placed under the care of the superintendent of child welfare, with a recommendation that he be sent to Weraroa.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17654, 7 March 1929, Page 7
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