RAPID CAREER OF CRIME.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 20 October 1915, Page 4

RAPID CAREER OF CRIME.

I The meteoric career in crime of Robert Osborne Burns, aged 17, of Berry Street, Wolverhampton, was outlined at Coventry. In six weeks, it waa stated, he had broken into Coventry Liberal Club; robbed an employer at Rhyl; broken into picture palaces at Wolverhampton, Walsall, and Shrewsbury; "entered" a Wolverhampton Liberal Club and restaurant. At the boy had borne an excellent character before cultivating a partiality for.picture palaces and Liberal Clubs, the bench decided to give him another chance, and bound him over for twelve months. The charge against Bunta was one of stealing a pair of trousers, valued at 10/. Evidence showed that the trousers were stolen from the Coventry Liberal Club, which prisoner broke into, and were the property of the steward. Sergeant Boswell spoice to seeing something.moving in a local picture theatre, and, gaining admittance, discovered Buriis, who exclaimed: "All right, the game's up.''