Two Nice Colonial Youths.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4552, 7 August 1883, Page 3

Two Nice Colonial Youths.

A couple of juvenile Jack Sheppards, named John Scott and Henry Poppleton, who were recently committed to the ■ Danedin Industrial Schoel, made their escape from the institution on Thursday last, and were not captured till Saturday, when they had got as far as Palmerston South. They state that they left the school about 6 o'clock in the morning, and on getting to the North-east Valley took two horses out of Mr FergUßon's paddocks, near the lower Junction Hotel, and rode them along the main road. After passing Waitati, they took a saddle and bridle from a stable, and went on to Evansdale, where they stopped for the night. On the next morning a hawker, who also stayed there, and who had a horse and cart, offered, to buy one of the , horses they had [or £3, and they asked ' the local blacksmith to draw out a receipt, but after making inquiries he declined to „ do so,. and they parted with the horse to \ the hawker for ten shillings. They then left for Waikouaiti! both riding the same . „ horse, and took a pair of ducks from KiLmog, the property of Bobert Frances, and .told them a short distance further on. At Waikouaiti they stayed at the Boyal . Hotel, and iv the morning took the blan- ' kets off the bed* and went away with ! them, and proceeded to Palmerston. Some ' " distance north of Waikouaiti they found a '' !' horse on, the road, which they took with them, and on getting to Pleasant Valley they took a bridle out of a shed belonging i " to Mr, Kennedy, and put it on the animal." j ' When near Palmerston they met a man . riding a horse,' who gave them ss. and a irery ojd worthless saddle for the one ' they had Stolen. The lads were brought . before the City Police Court this morning, ,- and remanded till to-morrow. One of ... the.lads is over 14 years old, and the other twelve.