BAD BOY SENT TO AN INDUSTRIAL HOME.
Auckland, June 25.
A boy under 15 years of age, employed in a large city shop, appeared at the Police Court charged with attempting to obtain money by unlawful means. He had pestered one of his employers’ customers, a lady well known in society, by ringing her up on the telephone, when he proposed that she should meet him by appointment. Acting on advic,e, the lady agreed, by choosing the Domain as the rendezvous. At the time appointed accused found a detective waiting for him. He admitted he had a revolver and that it was loaded. He had hoped hr intimidate the lady into giving him money. The Magistrate said Ihe boy had evidently been influenced by trashy literature, and committed him to Weraroa Training Farm.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1845, 27 June 1918, Page 3
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133BAD BOY SENT TO AN INDUSTRIAL HOME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1845, 27 June 1918, Page 3
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