A YOUTH'S ESCAPADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1917, Page 2

A YOUTH'S ESCAPADE.

RUNS AWAY PROM HOME. A charge of having insufficient lawful means of support against a lad of 14 came before the New T'lvmouth Juvenile Court yestcrdav. Mr. A. Crooke, S.M., presiding ' .Sub-Inspec-tor MeTlvenoy, in asking leave to withdraw the information, said that the youth had been brought (o him on Wednesday by a respectable business man of this town. The bov had gone to this gentleman and said that his' father was a business man in Wanganui, who had .cut him to Xcw Plymouth on a holiday with a gentleman. who was to meet him at the railway station, hut had not done so. The boy also said thai, he had given his luggage to a carrier, asking to be given a night's shelter, as he had no money or luggage. He

save the name of Perlie Martin. Inrpdries i-howed (hat the boy had arrived on Saturday night, and had run away over a week ago from his home in Aro Street, Wellington, because his father had thrashed him and threatened to send him in an industrial school. He had made his way here from Wellington by obtaining small sums of money from charitably-disposed persons, representing -that he had lost his railway ticket, and was returning to his parents at New Plymouth. In the meantime the lad's father had been onnuiring and advertising for him in Wellington, and on being communicated with agreed to nay his railway fare hack and expenses. The police had bought him a ticket, given him a few shillings for refreshments on the wav, and sent him oIF to Wellington. His Worship granted the application for leave to withdraw the information.