A YOUNG SCAMP.
LENIENCY ASKED FOR A TRAIN WRECKER.
(Per Press Association.) Oamaru, Safurday,
In connection with, the case of the boy Landrebe, 121 years of age, yesterday sentenced to a flogging and to be committed to the industrial school for placing a mile post across. the rails near Pukouri, on the 2nd inst., the Mayor, voicing bis opinion and that of a section of the community,has memorialised the Minister for Justice to have the hoy released after a birching, or to be allowed to be with his parents on probation, on the ground that the industrial school associations would spoil the . boy’s future. Landrebe is an exceptionally intelligent boy, and was going up for a Government scholarship. Meanwhile he has been removed from the precincts of the gaol till the Minister has finally decided hi 3 case.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1677, 19 February 1906, Page 3
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138A YOUNG SCAMP. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1677, 19 February 1906, Page 3
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