YOUNG THIEVES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19173, 2 December 1927, Page 13

YOUNG THIEVES.

GANG CAUGHT.

LO NG LIST OF CHARGES. [TB B PBSSS Special Service.] PUNEDIN, December 1. * many anxious weeks past de- • FOf have been endeavouring to apprehend thc persons re--1 for a scrics of motor " car *? , "conversions," as this class of t^ 0 5 Sn>ieally called. The DerfeDW nt has also been exercised in *Tr iSng the breaking open o ** t Sal boxes and the theft ot Days and nights have s lerS it by Members of the detec *"faK and of the plain clothes ■*• l nf the police in watching cer-localities-wet and cold K t \ many ot them-but it was not *p|Cday that they caught up Ua S in all wore approV S of these six admitted in the charges made against tf» P The half dozen were before tho sfl faurt this morning. Their r*« Allan Reuben Burnett *Tm Alexander Hodges (17) WilMartin (20), Frederick " nV and a vouth sixteen years *x fin months old. Barnett and tf «re jointly charged w,th SG, and entering the dwelling S?rf George McKnight Company's 77 uA stealing therefrom goods hd»t * l2 2s Cd; Darnett and Sfn with converting to their use a 'K valued at £2OO, the pro"fi Albert Joseph Morris; BarJfcrtin, and tho sixteen-year-old S with breaking and entering the W Arthur Grant Shernff and Sine therefrom about £ll in money, JWest, Barnett, and Hodges with !!1» converted to their use a ZfcMir valued at £IOO, the property fftcil Haden Tait Mr C- J- k. White appeared for H'ikfa an d Hodges and (on behalf of tfrHanlon) for Martin. Mr John Iflinson appeared for West. Detective Beer said that for almost inM months past there had been auplaints regarding the illegal userf Chevrolet motor-cars. Indeed, said to detective, the accused youths might ljailed'"The Chevrolet Gang," as for confindd their attentions to that Ju of car. They had removed the nn it various times from various oiiog areas in the city and from i jjqKJ the Carisbrook ground. It was rjMßed to ask for n, remand until jjjdjesday next as quite a number of fell charges were pending against the rnted. Jimett and Martin would be charged ijft breaking open several letter Ipl and stealing the letters therefa, There would also be further bm of breaking and entering prebtf agsinst these two who were h principals in the gang, and against M while Wilson and West would ntibly be associated with the others leSirges of conversion. The gang U given tho police an infinite amount Jtouble, continued Detective Beer, ii Jn addition to this owners ■of ilntolet cars had been afraid to leave

MWhite said he had no objection ijw remand and understood that rtijr Wilson nor Hodges -wished hail, bit, however, wanted hail, and if ftforship saw fit to grant bail, he km) would ask that it be grantito all. Mr White asked for supjwfen of the names of the accused nitthe facts had been gone into, fyjiwre all, he said, practically pper and first offenders. * Mr Wilkinson also asked for bail itd fpt the suppression of his client's iit&ljfest, lie said, came of a revjiip. family. Dative Beer objected to bail beat pied. The accused had given • mitrouble and it would be as sniltotep them apart. to%istrate (Mr J. R. Bartholo»«){(ke'of tho accused,, I under•Wji.jUßt under seventeen. That «i» aim a. juvenilo tinder the HofcdAct.

ifo Worship said that all the ac!J*i, with the exception of the juvenfy would be remanded until Wed»«ay. As they had admitted the wg«B there was no reason why their uaej should bVguppressed.. They were • mischievous .gang and should not »«et at liberty. Bail would, therefa*, be rtfuiea. In regard to the IjWiile, an order would be made for tin suppression of his name, and he *onM be dealt with in tho Juvenile W on Saturday week, and would, o the meantime, be under the superW» of the Child Welfave Officer.