YOUTHFUL 'BANDITS'
-PreBa Aasooiation.)
Masked Boys Hold-Up Elderly Woman CONVERSION OF CARS
(By Telegraph-
PALMERSTON N., This Day. Charges of unlawful conversion of cars, giving a false fire alarm and holding up an elderly woman with intent to steal her pnxse were preferred against three boys about 16 years of age in the Children 's Court. It was stated that, with handkerchiefs over their faces in baxdit style, they held up a woman 72 years of age in the street and attempted to steal her purse but were frustrated through someone else arriving on the scene. Two boys faced nine charges and the other seven charges of unlawful carconversion. Some of the vehicles, it was stated, had bee% damaged. Two of the boys, who had been' before the Court previously, were committed to the care of the superintendent of the Child Welfare Department and will spend a corrective period in an institution. The other boy was placed under the eupervision of the local childwelfare officer.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 5
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165YOUTHFUL 'BANDITS' Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 5
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