BOY BURGLAR'S EXPLOITS
Will Spend Eight Years f At Special School (Received lfl 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 31, An eight-year-old boy housebreaker admitted in the Juvenile Court at Poolefifteen thefts involving £30. The police evidence showed that the breakings-in were so clever that they were believed to be the work of an expert cracksman until the boy showed how he obtained entry. His parents fruitlessly tried to restrain him by tying him up with a rope and ehain and weighting his boots. When sent to bed wTitholit elothes the boy emerged from an upper window in liis shirt. The Magistrate ordered him to be sent to a special school until hq is sixteen years old.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 63, 1 April 1937, Page 5
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