CAPTURED

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1930, Page 5

CAPTURED

TWO YOUTHFUL MISCREANTS

[By Telegraph—JPer Press Association.)

MARTINBOROUGH, Jan. 20

'l’lie two youths who decamped from their employment last week and created a sensation in Pirinoa district were captured on Saturday by Constable Sleeth, of Martinbovougb, in a wool shed where they had slept the night before. When arrested, the boys were thoroughly exhausted and the first question they asked vas: “Can we have sleep,” and at midday they were still sleeping off 'die effects of their exhaustion. They were not in possession of the arms they stole earlier in the Week, having left them at a camp in the scrub. They came out into the open on Friday and opened a private mail bag extracting the contents. Evidently in search of food they broke into the house of a farmer employer and collected supplies of tea, sugar, bread and Witter and before leaving wrote the following note :— “W 7 e thank you dear joe for what we borrowed and will always have a bullet on you. Philip and Brown.” An extensive search has been continuing in the bush but the hoys had flipped through by .another track. The boys were captured without an fuss, as had been feared. They bad plenty of food but were soreiy m need appear before the Juvenile Court to-day.