AN UNPROMISING YOUTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 8 March 1907, Page 2

AN UNPROMISING YOUTH.

Per Press Asoeiatioa. invercavgiU, March 7. At the Juvenile Court, a bov of fourtt>on was charged on two counts with breaking and theft, also with having been found in pos-e->siou of a rifle, he being under the age of IU. The police said that the boy Had had rather a romarkahle career of crime. Recently lie paid two visits to Chistehuruh and one to Kdendalo, though all the money his mother ha'd given him was 14s. At (iiristc-huvch lie borrowed 0Gd from a gentleman who travelled 111 the same carnage, promising to refund the money, On his return, lie put the sum mentioned in a sugar bag tied it up in a parcel, and sent it. to his benefactor by post. The. lad was sin expert shot, and when a rifle belonging to his uncle was taken from him bocau.-e it was against the law, he purchased another, which he kept concealed in a hedge, giving the ownc-r .">s and a rug, which he had taken from his home. The parents did not object to the boy going to Jlurnham for a yeati and the Magistrate, in committing him to that insttution, said in adopt- ; ing such a course it was always with a great deal of regret. The training at the school might 1m severe, and in a great manv cases good might result, but he h:id yet in learn that it was up to Ihe standard which rhuu'd obtain. There was, however, no alternative.