BOY BURGLARS AT LARGE

Otaki Mail, 11 June 1923, Page 2

BOY BURGLARS AT LARGE

r BOLT FHO.M I JiAINi.NO 1-AltM IN DAVLIGFi T. i VICTO 11 KIMNEirS SHOIM STAY. VL“n Kinict, Olio ul tile hols out;a dried in ’lie recent -cries of burglaries m Levin, Daljneratoii. and Feiid-iii.-r. i- again at Hbeuy in tlic district •' alter a brief sojourn of about houi at the W.■;Boys' Training Fa: lie only returned to the iti-ihution on Wednesday by order of the supreio 1 Court. About 1’ o’clock on Friday he ••aid another inmate named scorrimn -• who wuc a waiting sentence by the Supreme Courc were out of doors in m'.barge o! two older hoys. Seizing a favourable opportunity Kirner an» rioorringe made a bolt for it, and outdistancing their keepers, disappeared s in the direction of Levin. Active search has been made for them, but, up to 1 the time of going to press, without 1 result. Kirner, vur-h a companion was at , liberty last week, and broke into premises at Levin, Palmerston, and Feilding, being recaptured at Hab • combe. In all file lads had five cases 1 of hi caking arid entering to ari.swe-- . for, one a: Feilding being of a more ' serious nature owing to their action in removing a .safe" from Dalgety’s offices, though they were foiled in their attempt to open it. Kirner came before Mr Justice Chapman at Welifngton on Wednesday arid His Honour ordered >he iv-tum of the hoys tc. weraroa, and on their release that 'hey should be admitted to probation for a period of three years. “J am giving you n chance." said his Hon 1 our. “and if you behave yotirselvea’.i will be well with you. 1 ' Subsequent events have shown that one at leas’ of tr,e youthful law-breakers was not prepared to take advantage of hiHonour's leniency. Fcorrfhge is also reported to have been In trouble before and on one occasion escaped from the custody of a Probation Officer by jumping from a train on which he was being h?might iron, Auckland. Both boy- are 1£ year,- of age and were dressed in the Farm uniform of dungaree shorts, stocking,- and jackets. Scorririge. who is the taller, is about .if? 6*in In height, and well-bun* dark, with long features, and slightly bandy-legged. Kirner is sft Sin. In height, light-haired, fair complexions'. I. end very plausible in ’he story be can tell They will, no doubt, get rid of the institution clothes as soon as S pot ibk*. The exploits of this type of led open up the question 0 i vrisdom of ordering them to the Weraroa Training Farm. Tor- Farm is in no sense gacc or a place of incarceration. <so *ar as we knew ft has neither the staff nor the facilities for restraining youth, whfi criminal predilections, r-elfi" under the control of the Education no partment and not of the Prisons’ authnrlttes. it would appear, therefore. ; “ a ! offenders, who have been guilty of five_ burglaries or who have become Isahrm.v t.rj-iaLfia.i for tame more rigorous treatment than i# possible at Weraroa. T':=- fault is probably one of classification or the want of some haterraedlate. institution to which the class ,of boys 115 question could be seni, .hut • as" long as it continues on the present ; -lines a distinct injustice is. bejng done ■ to the boys the Weraroa Institution , end the district which has to hear the t brunt 'of s periodical crop of depreda- 1