YOUTHFUL BANDITS.
ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. CAR CONVERSION CHARGES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Friday. Charges of unlawful conversion of ears, giving a false fire alarm and holding up an elderly woman with intent to steal her purse were preferred against threo boys aged about 1G years in the Children’s Court. It was stated that with handkerchiefs over their faces in bandit style they held up a woman aged 72 years In the street and attempted to steal her purse hut were frustrated through someone else arriving on the scene. Two of the boys faced nine charges and the other seven charges of unlawful car conversion. Some of the vehicles had been damaged. Two of the boys who had been before the court previously were committed to the care of the superintendent of the Child Welfare Department and will spend a corrective period in an institution. The other boy was placed under the supervision of the looal child welfare officer.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20248, 17 July 1937, Page 10
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