YOUTHFUL GANGSTERS
CAR CONVERSION CHARGES (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WANGANUI, Wednesday 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 Borstal for three years and 'Ross to the care of the welfare officer for two years. They converted a car at Wellington on Saturday night and drove to Wanganui, thence to Hawera on Sunday, where they converted a second car. They had a jemmy in the car, 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 suggesting that he do a "job" at Masterton. For the conversion of the Wellington car they will appear at Palmerston North to-morrow. They will also be charged with Ihe theft of benzine, at To I loro.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20508, 26 May 1938, Page 3
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171YOUTHFUL GANGSTERS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20508, 26 May 1938, Page 3
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