CHILD ROBBERIES
weapons and set to work to establish the cave as their heaclquarters. Money Vanishes. In course of time residentg of Maseru missed food from their larders, while money was also removed in some instances. One one ocassion it is said that five members of the gang' entered a shop and while three kept the proprietor busy two others rifled his till of £7.
Another member of the gang is reported to have stolen £5 from his father. At the tirqe no one knew who the perpetrators of these and other thefts were and the C.I.D. was called in. At length light was thrown on the mystery. A native minister of the French Protestant Mission, who had cashed a cheque for £180 to be paid to various ministers, placed the banknotes in the saddle bags on his horse. He visited two shops in town spending a fair time in each. After leaving the second shop he discovered that the money had been removed from the bags. Eventually the C.I.D. it is stated traced a marked money note to a European boy, who turned out to be a member of the gang. In this way wag the gang unearthed. Inquiries revealed that one of the laws of the gang was that any member betraying his colleagues would he shot and to this day the name of the leader I of the youthful gang i3 a secret.
YOUTHFUL GANG H.AS MINOR ARSENAL IN CAVE. BLOEMFONTEIN How a certain type of cinema pieture can have adverse effects on the minds of young children has been brought to light in Maseru. It is reported that a number of young boys, none over 10 years old and all frequent admires of blood and thunder pictures, formed themselves into a gang and from their headquarters in a well-concealed cave they, so it is alleged, conducted pilfering expeditions in town concealing their booty in the cave. These children, after locating the cave and establishing their gang secured possession of two colt revolvers and 50 . rounds of cartridges, stolen from the fathers of two of their members. They learnt how to handle
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 September 1931, Page 4
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355CHILD ROBBERIES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 September 1931, Page 4
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