BOY’S CLEVER TRICK FAILS TO GET REWARD
STOLE ELECTRIC BULBS Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Sunday. A boy was charged in the Children’s Court yesterday with the theft of four electric bulbs, the property of the Tramway Board, and also a quantity of potatoes. Senior-Sergeant O’Hara said the boy hit upon a clever device for making money. He had noticed that the Tramway Board offered a reward of £5 to anyone giving information leading to the detection of persons interfering with electric bulbs. The boy took some bulbs and brought £hem to the board’s office, and said he had knocked down the boy who was stealing the bulbs and taken them from him. “In the meantime,” continued the senior-sergeant, “the boy before the court stole some potatoes and sold them to the neighbours. For some time he persisted in telling lies about the electric bulbs and the potatoes, but finally he admitted both offences. He lives in a shack with his father, who is away all day, the boy being left on his own.”
The case was adjourned until next Saturday, and inquiries will be made into the conditions under which the boy lives.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 371, 4 June 1928, Page 16
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