A DANGEROUS LAD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7942, 4 October 1905, Page 2

A DANGEROUS LAD

(Per Press Association.) CIIIUSTCHUKCII, Oct. 3. Krncst Albert Frame, fourteen years of ago, a Hunrfiani Industrial School boy, licensed out to «. «angioro. resident, .admitted, at the llangiora Court to-day, two charges of interfering with the railway track between TCangiora and Oxford hi August. A railway spike was found wedged into a spaca between a length of rails on the Hangiora-Oxford railway line, ami one of Uie Inies'man't trollies was derailed. The . next month an attemptwas also (trogde to derail a train on tin; same line with a piece of .metal ■weighing some pounds, which was placed on Hie metals. The culprit was seen m •the second attempt.

Tho Magistrate said lie did not sec ho had power to order the boy to bd returned! to the Industrial School. Although the case was brought under thu Criminal Code and tho penalty was up to fourteen years' imprisonment, Jio could not reasonably send the boy for trial. Tho facts could be reported to the Minister for Education. The boy's employer undertook tho charge of him for a week pending a reply from the Minster.