THREE BOYS ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH THEFTS FROM SHOPS. Three small Wellington boys who had departed so far from tho strict path of virtue as to utilise their Sundays in the appropriation of sundry trifles from tradesmen’s shops, wore pulled up with a jerk by the police yesterday. They will appear before tho magistrate at the Juvenile Court to-morrow charged with breaking into shops in Willis, Manners and other streets.
Tho oldest of tho trio is only nine /oars of age, and the other two aro not more than eight years old. It is alegod that they entered and commitred thefts in _ the following shops: j’rooman’s fruit shop, Manners street; vVarwiok and Gender’s plumbing shop, Courtenay place; Walsh and Oliver’s barber’s and tobacconist’s shop, Willis itreet; E. Arnold’s baskotwaro shop, Manners street; and tho premises of Uio Westport Coal Co., Dixon street. The lads were seen leaving Freeman’s fruit shop by a little girl. She gave information to tho police and tho boys were arrested in Luke’s lane by Sergeant BlcCrorio and Constable Belcher.
So far as has been ascertained only articles of small value were taken, such as frnit, cigarettes, and tho like.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8344, 3 February 1913, Page 7
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193THREE BOYS ARRESTED New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8344, 3 February 1913, Page 7
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