Since Christchurch has been flooded with high-class music the number of 'would-be critics has been largely i augmented. And most of 'em can't even play a mouth organ. A couple of riotous, rebellious Burnham Industrial School cherubs, John Qonway -Murphy and Charles Tallke, have had a pretty adventurous time- of it lately. Th'.-y broke school, and stole and cade^ci tucker • until they got to Lake Waifefllal > There tJiey made a raid on a man'}; y* house ami 'pocketed three ((tiid'y / worth of jewellery, and klko sow* j cash. 'Then -they went to D-medii-.,^ stowed away on -a vessel bound U6jr Lyttciton. iind ,wcr« hanletl out. jnl the hold as g«ifia» >:i\rgp at Alw latter port, and biindtd «>v«t , i«> Peeler Woottoo. At 'OlinHtchtivijA iH couple wero ordered to Lh* jlake^i I back to Burnliatn School. V/ntsy i inmishrncnt couldn't have hr-?r. /awarj !dtd, so on the way out Tall ko) dived ! through a carriage window whi^lc thA i train was travelling at between t st>V| ?«f ' and eight miles an hmir. He Wasn't ; tjeen seen since. Is there anything; a il^mhani boy woa't do? \
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NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 4
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