A TRIO OF THIEVES.

NZ Truth, Issue 132, 28 December 1907, Page 5

A TRIO OF THIEVES.

Railway Station Prigs Pinched. For some considerable time " past the Manawatu railway people have been losing keys and looks off the premises, and sundry parcels also bate disappeared 1 m a mysterious; fashion." Investigation by the police resulted m the arrest of three youths of nineteen, named George Rait, Daniel ' Burk, and James Doran, cleaners Ui; the . Co's employ, who were found to. have possession bl .different articles of clothing purloined from a parcel entrusted to the Company for delivery to' some unfortunate.; The young man Bulk was found to ha^e, monopolised a; number :of missing keys, which had Been file.! and • reduced ~to "skeleton" form, and the discovery favored the supposition thai the youths had been engaged IN A SYSTEMATIC STEAL. One key appropriated by Burk could open every railway station tire line, and how .'on 1 eu'tn the ybuthful cracksman soit 'hold of it will probably never be related till he reaches the next world. The young man Doran had only been two days; m the ?serwce, --.which he entered fresh froni the 'flix swamps of Mahakau; and -Ms shate; m the theft was merely to; hold 'a candle while the other two did the Sykes trick, and he modestly claimed a belt whioh' he took a fancy to out of the parcel. AU pleaded guilty, but m view of the above circumstances Doran was given some sound advice about his [future associates by Magistrate Rid- [ dell, who ordered the rustic to come, [ iip for sentence v when called upon^ Rait and Burk were fined 40s, m defawft seven days in'his Majesty's re-* treat.