BOY'S BAD RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1931, Page 15

BOY'S BAD RECORD

"LIAR AND VERY CUNNING";

Described by the police as a liar' and very I cunning, .Eonald Frederick M'Bride,: alias : , Eonald Frederick Suiners, aged 17; pleatled guilty before Mr. T. B. M"Neil, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day to three charges of theft involving a camera and bU cycle accessories of a total value of £5 135..- ~' .' ','' ;i v ' ■'.'.■.■ Sub-Inspector Ward said that the thefts of the bicycle parts had taken place on separate days in July from a bicycle parked outside, a picture theatre. The camera had been; taken from a car parked in the street, and after keeping it for a few days, the accused had given it to a woman friend as a birthday present, saying that he had bought it second-harid. The woman had later pawned the camera. All the stolen property had been recovered in good condition. : The accused had three: times 'previously been ; bbfore the Cpurt for theft. .■'■'..''.: '..'.■ ', . ' ... "The police report is .that the boy is somewhat' sub-normal," Baid' the SubInspector. "He is a liar and very cunning. Ho was to have appeared before the Court yjwtcrdajybufc d\d not do so, and a warrant was issued for. hia arrest. Although he suffers from a bad heart, he was able to run away this morning and scramble over, a back fence when the police attempted to arrest him."- ..'■' ''.■■.'; ~, ■''■ ' '■ "..,■. It appeared that a period of Borstal detention would be'for the benefit of the accused, but as he had a bad heart it was a question what to-do with him. Tho Magistrate ronianded i the accused for a week in order that a report can be obtsrtned from the gaol surgeon..;. ..... :■' . _ _L_