YOUTHS' DEPREDATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 22463, 7 October 1936, Page 15

YOUTHS' DEPREDATIONS

EXTENSIVE LIST Of OFFENCES COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Eight charges of breaking and entering and theft and two of breaking and entering premises with intent to commit a crime therein were admitted in the Police Court this monring by Stanley George James Murray (10) and Gone Jefferson Shirrefts (17), the accused pleading guilty to all the and being committed to the Supremo Court for sentence. The offences extended over a period in August and September.

Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., was on the bench, and the accused were represented by Mr C. J. L. White, _the prosecution being conducted by Chief-detec-tive J. B. Young. The accused were charged with break-

ing and entering and theft in respect of the following firms, the amount of stolen property in each case being given :—Cadbury Fry Hudson (£2 13s 6d), Otago Farmers’ Co-op. (£1 4s 6d), Sargood. Son, and Even (£5 10s), Waitaki Dairy Company (6s Id), Jago, Biggs Ltd. (£1 12s 6d), Mercer and Mitchell Ltd. (£3 3s), Annie Louisa Ryan (£1 14s), John Mill and Co. Ltd. (2s). The accused were also charged with breaking and entering the counting house of Radiation (New Zealand) Ltd., and the counting house of Keith Ramsay and Co. Ltd., with intent to commit crimes therein, and with breaking ■Ad entering the premises of R. Thompson Ltd., and committing theft therein. Evidence of the various premises having been locked and the subsequent discovery that they had been entered and ransacked was given by witnesses as follows:—James Hogg Gilkinson (Radiation New Zealand Ltd), William Theodore Newby, William Frank Self, and George Cleveland Sanderson (Cadbury, Pry, Hudson Ltd.), Gordon Campbell (Waitaki Dairy Company), William Fitzroy Spence (John Mill and Co.), Frederick Pastier (Otago Farmers’ Cooperative Association), Frederick Cecil Sweete (Mercer and Mitchell Ltd.), John Edwin Jago (Jago, Biggs Ltd.), Alexander Davidson Lawson, Aeneas Henry M'Lcod (Sargood, Son, and Ewen), Annie Louisa Ryan (Modes Millinery Shop). Fanny Thompson (R. Thompson Ltd.), and Walter Henry Meyers (Keith Ramsay and Co.). Detective H. J. Wells gave evidence that he had interviewed the accused and secured statements from them in which they admitted all the offences. Another youth was implicated and was being proceeded against in the Children’s Court. The accused pleaded guilty to all the charges, and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was allowed in each case on the accused’s own recognisance of £SO, with one surety of £SO, conditional upon their reporting twice daily to the police.