KINEMATOGRAPH BLAMED.
WHAT PARENTS TOLD THE BENCH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Palmerston N., June 9. Mr. A. D. Thomson, S.M., presided over a sitting of the Juvenile Court, when two boys, whose ages were elghi and ten years respectively, were charged with breaking and entering and theft. The boys, it appeared, had broken into several business places in the town, and had rifled several tills, from one of which a quantity of pennies were abstracted. A quantity of stock and a case of apples were also taken from the premises visited. The parents of the boys (who appeared in Court) attributed their children's action to witnessing kinematograph pictures of burglaries, and stated that the boys had wed to copy the easy manner in which thieves abstracted their bo»tv.
The Magistrate pointed out to the boys the seriousness of their offence, and, on the parents signifying their intention to refund the value of the articles taken, the boys were dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 325, 12 June 1911, Page 8
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158KINEMATOGRAPH BLAMED. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 325, 12 June 1911, Page 8
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