JUVENILE COURT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10603, 31 May 1920, Page 3

JUVENILE COURT

YOUTH SENT TO WERAROA. ■On Saturday morning a youth, 16 years of age, appeared, before Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Juvenile Court to answer a charge of stealing two revolvers and 1000 cartridges, the property ofi Leslie Tisdall. Sub-Inspector Emerson informed tho court that tho accused had received an engagement with Messrs Tisdall and Company, hut only remained in tho firm’s employ for a day and a-ha,lf. After the hoy had left tho revolvers and ammunition wore raisaed, but lo was some time afterwards that they were traced to the defendant’s possession. In April a man was accidentally shot, but tho wound inflicted was not of a serious nature. The police made iniuirio.s. and when a constable interviewed tho accused, who was living at Ngaio,. ho admitted tho theft. The youth had been before tho court on two previous occasions, ono being for discharging a firearm, and tho other on a charge of having stole* a horse, foi which offence ho was convicted and admitted to -three years’ probation. Mr J. Dineen, juvenile probation officer, said tho accused, while under his care, had given a considerable amount of trouble and had failed to take advantage, of the chnnco that had been given him. He suggested that the defendant should ho sent to the training farm at Weraroa. Tho magistrate said that the youth required to ho placed under discipline, and committted him to AYmaroa.