JUVENILE CRIME. Timaru, June 10.
Two boys,aged nine and eleven yeres. were convicted of housebreaking during Thursday morning. Somehow they unlatched the window of a bachelor's house, and getting in stole 15s in money and a knife. The elder gave the younger 6s as his share, and took the rest, cash and articles, and tried to sell a pin to a pawnbroker, and traded a ring, knife and pendant to another boy for a shillelagh. The father, a widower, stated he was unable to control the elder boy. The charge against the younger was dismissed and the elder was sent to Burnham School. In another case a boy of nine and a girl of eleven, children of a" widow, were charged with pilfering firewood at night. They were dismissed, but the R.M. lectured the mother, who stoutly denied sending them out to geb anything.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 376, 12 June 1889, Page 5
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144JUVENILE CRIME. Timaru, June 10. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 376, 12 June 1889, Page 5
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