A BOY AND HIS BAIL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 53, 26 November 1920, Page 10

A BOY AND HIS BAIL

« RELEASED AND REARRESTED. Tjast weelc a youth named Roy Gcorg« Cudbv. 17 vpnrs of age, was charged hefore Mr. E.'K. Hunt, S.M., in f o Magt». hate's Court with the theft of tram tickets (value Is. Gd.), and was remanded until yesterday. At the request of the police 'the Magistrate refused bail, it being explained that the boy was beyond control, and that there were othp. charges pending njainst him. Cudby wn»' brought in) on remand yesterday Ijcforn Mr. .T. S. Evans, S.M., when Sub-Inspec-tor Emerson asked for n further remand until December 3, and suggested that rhs. lad sllould lx> held in cuslody aj ordered'by Mr. Hunt, S.M. . Mr. Evans expressed doubt as to whether the youth could be refused bnjl. more especially as the cliorßO was a Trivial ono. The sub-inspector stated that thnr» wore 2.1 other charges pending against the lad, who was on license from the Weraron. Industrial Training Farm. Mr. Evans said that the nuestion of bail could be considered only in_ respect to the charge at present laid against tlit defendant, and not with respect to possible charges. Chief Detective Ward interposed Mid stated that 23 charges, some of them of a serious nature, were pending against the youth, and in the public interest it would be his duty to rearrest the youth if he were liberated on bail. 'The Magistrate, howeved, decided ti> grant bail and fixed the amount nt .£lO. 'J'ho boy reappeared in the afternoon, before Messrs. J. AY. Ellison and R. Han lon, J.P.'s, and fourteen other charge.', were preferred against liim. Chief Detective AVard asked for a rcm-.nd until December 3. which was granted, anil bail was refused as the chief detectivo said that he had reason to believe thnt the txiy was responsible for a big series of city burglaries.