A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9044, 20 March 1908, Page 5

A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL.

EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF CRIME.

BY TELEQIUPII—riIERS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND. March 19. Duncan R. Calderwood, aged 16, who has had an extraordinary career of crime, admitted in the Police Court to-day, a series of thefts of considerable extent, and audacity. He came from the Waikatu, and after various sojourns at Industrial Schools was licensed to his father, a wharf labourer, at Wellington. Four months later he shook off parental influence. On his way to the Lower Hutt he received acommodation in a hut, from which he disappeared, taking £lB of his mates' money. Proceeding by train to Napier, he purchased a pea rifle, and a large quantity of ammuniti&ti but, unfortuately, the rifle got out of order. On reaching Auckland he annexed one bicycle and sold it for £2 10s; stole another, and swapped it for a watch and chain. Proceeding to Tepapapa, he was befriended by Mr Angus Gordon, and rewarded his host by bolting with a horse, saddle, and bridle. On the way to Mercer,' he exchanged the saddle for a better one on another horse, but at Mercer he fell into the arms of a waiting policeman. The Bench sentenced Calderwood to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the terms to be concurrent. It was stated by the Sub-Inspector that the boy's transfer to Burnham School would be speedily effected.