MORE YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1631, 16 December 1882, Page 2

MORE YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.

At the Hamilton Police Court, yesterday, befdrc HHrW r Worship the Mayor and l#r J. "B/Whyte, J.P., two, lads nailed. Wi! liam Davis and Samuel Martini both; undej> ten. years of age. were charged with having, on the evening of Wednes day We* 1 3th, stolen from the till in MesßrfcSandes ami ;Goi'»; shop, jfthc^iit £2 in silver, A Sargt, MpQQvorn prgsejuted, and,the evidenoe.of Mr Sandes and Gonatablo >l^ild was ; take.n, ftpi connect \ the "youthfulrßrjsonero.wi^tbip theffc..- Dayi» w§B k,fto\jrftQfha(\^ beejiiiiulhe^shop on. : the mghjb|i9 ftUjestiQnilfand-^^^he ioU . lowinc, , d^y iiti^Ci itJoucc i * dwcoy ered * tna % 'ihaxL lad eome^h|^ ( *fr^ei^^> Hv^wSsr^mt^C'W charce and

havtng*receiveu tne money from Davis, but where it "was obtained. Davis safdj he '^planted" his share pfthAe? pluudevfihi the 111-tree swamp near the Uke,|bat)\althaugh a search was instituted it couM npj|jbe found. —The Mayo*, aafdj the^Beiich cousidered the] case" agaM^ferbot^'lads fully proved,* and ordered them' to be privately whippted by the police. He said the case should be a warning to the parents of the children, who apparently had lo3t all control, over them. If they did not adopt stringent measures the boys would grow up to dis J • grace them. The duty the Bench h[ad to perform was a most painful one, as the, parents were well-known and respected^ iv the community. The boys were then removed to thq lock-up, where' the police administered a birohing |to, and afterwards liberated them. The Bench made «m order to baud over to Mr Sjandes the money found on martin.