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YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS IN AUCKLAND. f BUDGE CONOLLY IN ANOTHER DILEMMA. HIS HONOR REGRETS THE [ABSENCE OF REFORMATORIES. ~ Per Press Association AUCKLAND, last night. r At the Supreme Court, Mr' Justice Conolly confessed he did not qtiite know what to do with two boys .who had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to breaking and entering a dwelling near Oneliunga and stealing! a silver watch and chain. His Honor said he was afraid there was a great deal of pestilent literature about, in which boys read of thieves and pirates and such people. This was the first time he had had a case of this kind before him-. Industrial schools, he believed, made boys iworse, and probation was hardly suitable. The facts were that the boys had played truant on the day in question, had gone to the house, opened the window, and stolen the I- 1 -watch and chain,, which they tried to sell. “If we had 'any real reformatories, I would send (them there,” said His Honor, “ hut I am afraid we have not.” His Honor then talked to the hoys severely, and admitted them to probation for /twelve .months, saying, however, ' that this course was not a satisfactory one.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 972, 19 August 1903, Page 3
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