JUVENILE DISHONESTY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1596, 18 June 1887, Page 3

JUVENILE DISHONESTY.

A discovery, which points to an alarm* log prevalence of dishonesty among a section of the office boys employed by the large mercantile firms of the city, says the Sydney Morning Herald of May 16, has bean made within the past week by Detectives Hoskieon and Rochaix. D has been ascertained that for some time past an extensive traffic in postage stamps obtained by,dishonest means from the offices of their employers has been carried on between these lads and two Greeks named Peter Sirrop and Charles Garubit, vendors of ice creams. The suspicions of the officers were aroused through, large numbers of boys being seen visiting these characters, and a little judicious observation of their dealings tegelher established the fact that the men were in the habit of buying stamps from their juvenile customers. The detectives resolved to obtain the fullest information possible as to the extent of this system, and spent a week in watching the two establishments and tracing the boys, of whom they discovered no less than 60, to the houses of business in which they were employed. To assist in effecting this end two bojs were hired, who proved themselves valuable auxiliary detectives. On Thursday the officers armed themselves with warrants, and arrested Sirrop and Garablt, and after searching their stalls, postage stamps were found to the value of between £2 and £3, That these represented the contra* band traffic of one day is evidenced by the circumstance that the Greeks had been observed whilst under surveillance, to dispose of the stamps to a third party at the close of each day.