LOW LIFE IN SYDNEY

Dunstan Times, Issue 1166, 4 July 1884, Page 3

LOW LIFE IN SYDNEY

. Several boys and girls were recently ap pretended at Sydney for a theft of som" bags.- In Court one of the lads -the eldest of whom was not over fifteen and the youngest eleven years of age —told his tale, and it wns reported thug in the Sydney Morning Herald :—“ Me and this 'ere cove fa child of thirteen) was at the theayter, when as we come out we met another cove us tells us that the other coves was round v-ith some girls at Merlony’s. We goes round and we climbs up a wall, and creeps up ifito Merloney’n through a place where a board was broke. Th-re was five of us coves snd three girls’bout the same age as we was. The girls told us where the hags was and huw we could git’em. We slept there all night, bovs and girls. Next morning us and tlie girls went round and took the bags. Three of us coves sold ’em two lots for 5s each, and one lot tor 6s fid. We give the. girls some of the money. We spent ours in' ’bacca, cikes, cigarettes, and matches. One of the girls got two m ntha for shaking L2. The girls they split on us and that’s how the D.’s (detectives) got,us. The lads had deserted their homes, and hail associal ed with thieves, who live in sheds and .«. liars.”