YOUTHFUL BURCLARS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 16 May 1914, Page 7

YOUTHFUL BURCLARS.

INCIDENT AT THE THAMES, I :•*: i Peu Pbess Association. \ ■•.'(> I". ~( li:, ■■.; ~ Thames, May, 15. ;; A case presenting \ sensattonaj side features was befoi/a'jthe Court to-day, when Leslie Lioiicfl)-Grant, a youthful postal employee;,-. George Augustus j Smith, who recently arrived from ! England with his invalid father; and i F. •anfcravelI ling showman, were charged with | breaking and entering promises by night. The house burgled - wad that of the officer in charge of the Post | Office. Savings Bank Department, who possessed the keys of the strongv9Pllh...>vhich contained.a large. Jiuui.at' inoney. Equipped with electric-torches the four visited the official's.,residpneo at midnight, entered a room by the. window, and secured thirty shillings. They cw'ere foiled in their 'ehdeswoV tb secure the keys. Though one* wore indiarubber shoes, . the others were bare-footed, and they made a noise, awakening the occupants of the room. They endeavored to soize. the robbers, who Vied. The accused pleaded guilty and wore'committed to the Supreme Court for sentence ,■