JUVENILE CRIME.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 9

JUVENILE CRIME.

DISTURBING SEQUENCE. BRUTAL MURDERS. (nr cable—pbess associatiCn—copraiGHT.) (AUSTRALIA!? IKb K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 9th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 8. A disturbing sequence of juvenile crime was revealed in to-day's Courts. First, William Shillibeer, aged 14i was committed for trial for the murder of Albert Hannah, aged 13. The evidence showed that Hannah was a member of the Red Hand Gang, a band of young hooligans wearing a red band beneath their coats. They attacked Shillibeer who, it is alleged, fatally stabbed Hannah in the course of the brawl.

Herbert Crowley, aged 13, was remanded at Clerkenwell on a charge of attacking his mother and two-year-old sister with a bottle. He is alleged to have confessed that he saw his mother and sister lying in bed and that something came over him causing him to strike both. His mother's_ jugular vein was severed and her condition is critical.

Wilfred Reeves, aged 16, was remanded at Cheltenham on a charge of murdering a 70-year-old woman, whose body, terribly battered, was found in a creek.

A band of lads, averaging thirteen years, belonging to a phantom gang, for robbing and terrorising, were bound over at Manchester;