DID NOT TAKE CHANCE
YOUTH SENT TO BORSTAL LENIENCY ABUSED George edward cox, aged 19, was sentenced at the Police Court to-day to two years* detention in the Borstal Institute. He pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a racing bicycle valued at £2O. Chief-Detective Cummings said that accused had taken the machine from a garage where it had been stored after a race. The Probation Officer, Mr. W. J. Campbell, said that Cox, who was before the court in September, had then been given a chance, to go to the country, but had not stayed there. Cox was the youth who had been directing men to dig up city streets.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 190, 1 November 1927, Page 1
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111DID NOT TAKE CHANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 190, 1 November 1927, Page 1
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