CITY BURGLARIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 6

CITY BURGLARIES

BOYS ALLEGED TO BE THE CUL- ■ PIUTS. For sonic time past a number of cases of breaking and enteriug city warehouses mid other olaces of business have come under the notice of tho polico.' The proeumntion was that menfolk were the eulm'its, but detailed investigations led iin to the arrest of seven juveniles.

Altogether these toys, whoso ages ranu'c between nino years and fifteen voars. will be called upon '.o explain no fmver thrui eighteen offences of breaking and entering. Tlie crimes cover a period from .Iniio 8 till the apprehension of tho accused a few days ago. . According to information supplied by tho Dolico tho boys havo been operating in "two sanss, one of four and one of three. Their euccosa from a monetary noint. of view line not been great, for the total sum stolen amounts to about ■SKI. It ie not tho actual thefts which have caused tho firms concern, but tho amount o{ damage done to offico fittings, ntc. In somo eases roller-top desks wore considerably damaged by being forced onen bv some clumsy instrument. When tho oremises of one firm were opened one morniiiEf it was found that tho place had heon visited, and tho floor of one room was found to bo saturated with a veluablo wiun which had been allowed to run off from its container. In this instance n.lono tlin loss sustained by the firm amounted to £IQ. ■, Thn enses will be hoard in the Jnvenilft Court.