SCHOOLBOY CRIMINAL
Brilliant Pupil's Lapses Brilliant as a scliolar by day a 13-' year-old Grays, Essex, schoolboy was revealed at Grays Juvenile Courfc recently, to have carried out successful shopbreaking expeditions while his parents slept. He described to the Court how^ on three occasions, as dawn was breaking, he quietly opened. his bedroom window, climbed out, closed tlie window to avoid suspicion, broke into local shops,. and . returned to his bedroom in tlie same way that he had lei't it. His parents wero stated to have so suspicion that anything "was wrong until on his thfrd . escupade, a 'trades4mau \hcard: noise in liis shop aiid cfiiightltiie'bey after a stfje^ Tho magistrate adjoiirned./ the " casev for a month to enable the boy to hav^ psyckological treatment: . ' - .« ' ; -*iv 1
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 2
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127SCHOOLBOY CRIMINAL Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 2
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