INQUISITIVE BOY GETS INTO TROUBLE
“UNNECESSARY” THEFT He committed the theft quite un?««*2? arily ; Inr 4 u isitiveness more than anything else induced him to enter JVv succumbed to tempetation.” r> Go , uldi e lor an offender in Children s Court to-day. boy ; a &ed 16, finding that the key from his father’s bach fitted a if I ®?’ entered and took cigarettes and 252. I y^t 0 th ,° vaiue of £3 7s 6d. He pleaded guilty. Another smaller boy S”? , helpetl to smoke the cigarettes. been c.iastised by his parents at home for his part in the ...Hair, said feeruor-Sergeant Kelly. Commenting that the offender had everything in his favour, Mr E. C. Cutten, reprimanded and dismissed him suggesting to his father that the Doy himself should make restitution. A 12-year-old boy denied the theft a „ , klt t,f bicycle tools, valued at 12s 6d, saying that he had found it on the road. As there was insufficient evidence, he was dismissed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 364, 26 May 1928, Page 13
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161INQUISITIVE BOY GETS INTO TROUBLE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 364, 26 May 1928, Page 13
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