YOUTH’S ESCAPADE

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20736, 21 February 1939, Page 9

YOUTH’S ESCAPADE

HASTINGS POLICE STORY TRIP ON STOLEN BICYCLE (By Telegraph. —Press Association) HASTINGS, .Morulav Piecing together scraps of information and "reports from various centres, the Hastings police believe they are in a position to unfold to the magistrate at Hastings to-morrow a remarkable story of an eventful journey made by two youths who escaped from the Weraroa Training Farm at Levin on Friday and eventually were located at Hastings tiiis morning. It is believed that the youths left Levin by means of two bicycles taken from in or near Levin and they cycled to Palmerston North, where on Saturday they are believed to have broken into cycle works and Collected two new machines, together with accessories. Near Hie borough boundary at Palmers!on North the police were able to recover two Levin bicycles, which bad been abandoned. Kn route to Hastings upon tlm new machines it is understood lliaf the pair slopped at the Vacuum nil Company's d-pnt near Dannevirke. where the> broke info the premises and decamped willi about £5. Near Pakipaki they saw a coal hanging on a fence and as Ihe resuil of on inspection of this gnrmcnl they wen? richer to Ihe extent of 7s and a bunch of keys. They arrived in Hastings abnul 6.30 last evening and some 12 hours later they were taken into custody once again. |his time by the Hastings police. In the meantime, however, the police received three reports of breaking and entering into business premises in Hastings, ail of which they attribute to the youths, who will appear in the Children’s Court to-morrow.