ALLEGED BOY BURGLARS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1664, 3 February 1913, Page 4

ALLEGED BOY BURGLARS.

CITY PREMISES RAID. . On Monday last several business people with premises in tho heart of the city, reported to tho polioo that their promises had been entered some timo between tho closing hour on Saturday night and opening timo on Monday morning, Articles and goods of small value had been taken, and a good deal of promiscuous rummaging liacl been done, On delving info tno cose, tho police judged tho work to bo that of juveniles, young boys for-prefer-ence, as a disposition was shown for tho annexation of fruit and cigarettes. As tho result of an alert watch yesterday, Sergeant M'Crorio and- Constable Bencher arrested three small boys last evening at Freeman's fruit shop in Manners Street, tho youngsters being found in possession of money and a quantity of fruit. A' charge of theft wiir Ixv preferred against them in the Juvenile Court, Two of tho boys aro brothers, aged 8 and 9 years respectively, and tho tlijrd is aged only 8 years. Tho children—they aro nothing more—were handed over to their parents in tho meantime. Tho list of premises alleged to havo been entered is as follows:—Freeman's fruit shop, Manners Street; Warwick and Condor, plumbers, Coiirteuay Place; Walsh and Oliver, barbers, Willis Street j Edwin Arnold, basket-maker, Willis Street; and tho Westport Coal Co/a premises in Dixon Street.