GIRL’S MISCHIEF
BROKE TEA-ROOM WINDOWS WANTED COFFEE AND SLEEP T>ECAUSE she wanted a cup of coffee and a sleep a 16-year-old girl tried to break into a tearoom in Avondale. In the early hours of Monday morning the occupier heard two windows being broken. With a broom handle he struck the ankles of someone who was standing on the window sill. The would-be burglar escaped, but was found by the police. At the children’s court to-day the girl was first charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, but the count was reduced to one of committing mischief and wilful damage. Sergeant Turner outlined the circumstances, stating that all the window's in the tea-rooms had been tried before two were broken. The girl was in service at Remuera and she had come into the city on Sunday night. She was not quite normal. Previously she ha!d been employed at the tea-rooms. “I didn’t break two windows,” the girl told the court. “I wanted to make myself some coffee and have a sleep.”
Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., warned the girl that she had been “running off the rails a little bit.” The girl was placed under the care of the superintendent of child ■welfare.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 5
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