WANTED THE TRIP
BACK FROM FAR SOUTH BOY FROM THE BORSTAL Although only a lad in short trousers, Leslie George Dunn has already made a name for himself. At the Supreme Curt on January 31 he was sentenced to three years at the Borstal Institute for breaking and entering and arson. Before he went south to Invercargill however, this boy of 17 had added eight more offences to the list which proclaimed his notoriety. He stole four bicycles from various people, and changed the wheels and seats to prevent identification. This was between January 7 and 20. In the same fortnight he stole two separate sums of money, a suit, and some other clothing from various houses about Auckland. The bicycles helped to carry him from place to place. “When we interviewed him at Invercargill,” Chief-Detective Cummings told the court, ‘‘we told him he could be dealt with there, but he said he wanted to come to Auckland. I think he wanted the trip.” In view of the fact that Dunn will he an inmate of the Borstal until January, 1930, Mr. Hunt, S.M., convicted and discharged him on these eight charges.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 9
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192WANTED THE TRIP Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 9
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