A LEAP FOE LIBERTY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2376, 28 October 1880, Page 2

A LEAP FOE LIBERTY.

The two young Tozers recently escaped for the third time from the Burnham Industrial School. When arrested they had been wandering about the country, between Hakaia and Ashburton, for nearly a week, living on whatever they could find to eat aud sleeping under hedge-rows. They were brought up before Mr Guinness the Ashburton E. M., and on being asked whj r they wanted to leave the Home, they said that they were not allowed enough to eat there, and that they were “hammered too much.” Mr Guinness told them that they would have to go back and be “ hammered ’’ some more. Yesterday they were put on board |the train at the Ashburton station, but when near Dunsandel the youngstrs managed to jump off the train ns it was running. The man in charge took the first opportunity of alighting, and one of the runaways was recaptured but the other managed to escape and has not yet been retaken. The authorities at Burnham say that the boys are incorrigble and confess that they arc utterly beyond their control. These terrible young follows are of about the respective ages of eight and eleven years. The crime which they were sent to expiate for a term of years at Burnham was cutting the buttons off a coat and mixing up some dry tea and sugar which they found in the tent of a contractor at Albury.