BOY AS HOUSEBREAKER

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 396, 1 April 1937, Page 8

BOY AS HOUSEBREAKER

Rivalled Expert “Cracksman” Press Association —Copyright. London-, Mlairch 31. An eight-year-old boV housebreaker admitted in the Juvenile Court at Poole to-day that he had committed 15 thefts involving £3O. Police evidence showed that the breakings-in were- so clever that they were believed to be the work of an expert “cracksman" un ill the boy showed how he

obtained entry. The parents fruitlessly tried to restrain him by tying him up with a rope -and chain and by weighting his boots. When he was sent to bed without his clothes the boy emerged t’rom an upper window in his shirt. The Magistrate ordered the boy to ue sent to a special school until he is--16 years of age. “The boy is loveable hut adventurous,” said his mother. “When I had a poisoned hand he bathed, dressed and powdered the baby. He did a,ll he could to relieve me of. the work at home with six children. I cannot oppose his going aw'ay, for he has taken his brothers, aged seven and five years, on his- expenditions.”