A YOUNG SCOUNDREL.
ATTEMPTED TRAIN-WRECKING, !(P#r Press Association.) Christchurch, last night. ; ; Ernest Albert Erarae, 14 years of age, a Burnham Industrial School boy licensed ; out to a Rangiora resideot, admitted at the Rangiora Court to day two charges : of interfering with the railway Iraok be« : tween Rangiora and Oxford. In August a railway spike was found wedged into a space between a length o! rails on the Rangiora-Oxford railway line,' and one of the linesmen’s' trollies was derailed. Next month bd attempt was/ also made to derail a train on the same line with a piece of metal weighing some pounds laid on the metal. The culprit was seen in the second attempt. The Magistrate said be did not see tlat he had power to order the boy to hew,' turned to the Industrial Soboql. Althoujp the case was brought under the Criminal Code Act, and the penalty was 14 years' imprisonment, he could not reasonably send the boy for trial. The facts could be reported to the Minister of Education, The boy’s employer undertook the charge of him for a week pending a reply from the Minister. . ...
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1575, 4 October 1905, Page 2
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188A YOUNG SCOUNDREL. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1575, 4 October 1905, Page 2
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