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WANGANUI.

A Nice Youth.

This day.

Bather a remarkable youth named John Hose, fifteen years of age, was brought up at the Police Court this morning, on three separate charges, viz., setting fire to a gorse fence; breaking into a- school and doing considerable damage; and stealing a pair of boots from a house at Fordell, all on Sunday morniDg last. He pleaded guilty to all the charges. He is the son of a most respectable settler, in Wanganui. It appears that on Saturday night he commenced operations by ringing the bells of all the people in one of the streets ; afterwards going to the Her. — Williams place, and borrowing or stealing, a horse ; mounted on this, and wearing a pair of blue spectacles—got on credit earlier in the evening at a local jewellers—he rode up to the firebell, which he pulled heavily, and then rode off info the country district as far as Fordell; here he broke into a blacksmith's shop, stole a clock, which he hid away in a back house, and then went into-a place of worship, took out the interior of the harmonium, and dissected it. He next knocked a farmer up m the middle of the night, to find the way to a Mr Hellier's house. Directly he had gone in again the boy set hjs gorse fence on fire, and then went to a house and stole a pair of boots, which he aftei?

wards threw away. He went to the local school, into which he got through the window, and poured ink all over the tables and into the clock, scratching maps and doing other damage. He has the reputation of committing similar acts in the past, and the Bench remanded him for a week for medical examination. It is generally believed "to be nothing but pure mischief.

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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4638, 15 November 1883, Page 2

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WANGANUI. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4638, 15 November 1883, Page 2

WANGANUI. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4638, 15 November 1883, Page 2

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