BOY “BANDITS”
HORSE AND CART TAKEN YOUNG LADS' ESCAPADE Imbued with the bandit idea two small brothers recently commandeered bicycles, a pony, and a horse and cart and spent a brief holiday. The younger one, 12 years of age, came before the Children’s Court today and pleaded guilty to some of the offences The lads had “cleared away” in June, and having taken a couple of overcoats at Onehunga, they mounted ladies’ bicycles and rode off. Then a horse and gig appealed to them and they drove it until the animal shied and went over a bank at night. They left the horse and it died there. Later they returned home, “tired but happy,” perhaps. Sergeant Edwards asked that the parents should make restitution of the value of the horse and the damage to the gig, £l3. The mother said that her husband was a driver and he could not afford to pay £l3. “The boys jumped out of the cart before the accident and they did not see it afterwards,” she pleaded. Mr. Cutten, S.M., ordered the parents to pay £7 10s. The boy was put under supervision. His brother is at a training farm:
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 9
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196BOY “BANDITS” Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 134, 27 August 1927, Page 9
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