“ORGANISED GANG”
WELLINGTON YOUTHS BEFORE COURT. THREE SENT TO BORSTAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day. Described by Detective J. Murray as an organised gang of Wellington youths, David Ross, 16; Eric Albert Collins, 18; Albert Edward Morris, 18, and Robert Walter Page, 18. were charged before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M.. with converting a car at Hawera to their own use. Collins, Morris and Page were committed to a Borstal Institution for three years and Ross to the care of the Welfare Office for two years. The youths converted a car at Wellington on Saturday night and drove to Wanganui and thence to Hawera on Sunday where they converted a second car. They had a jemmy in the car and also nails flattened to operate car switches, and rubber tubing loaded at one end with solder. A letter was found in the possession of one youth suggesting that he do a “job” at Masterton.
For the conversion of a Wellington car they will appeal' at Palmerston North tomorrow and also for the theft of benzine at Te Horo.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 8
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179“ORGANISED GANG” Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 8
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