MASQUERADING AS ADA REEVE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 276, 18 August 1919, Page 6

MASQUERADING AS ADA REEVE

BOY THIEF IN COURT. Br Telegraph— l'rcss Association. ■ Auckland, August IS. The police at Takapuna, tooniing-sufe picious of the movements of a girl, demanded an investigation of her belong, ing*, and found in her possession jewellery resembling articles which had been stolen from various houses. The police matron was about to search the prisoner, when a policeman, etruck by a resemblance, asked: "Is that you, Norman?". A'boyish voice, accompanied by tears, admitted that it was. The identified boy is fifteen years old. He was arrested in tlw South Island some weeks ago for thefts at TVeraroa Training Farm, and escaped from custody in Wellington. Ho committed thefts at Napier and elsewhere, and reached Auckland." He was well dressed, and was in possession of a considerable mini of money. The boy was before the Juvenile Court here last Saturday, and was committed to a local home, from which ho deserted. When arrested, ho was clothed in well-made female attire.

When the kd. who has been masquerading as Ada. R«ve, was bofore tno Police Court, the Probation Officer said ho had exercised a disturbing influence on tho other inmates of the probation house. The Magistrate ordered his transfer to Weraroa, and the return of tho stolen property to the owners, "