JUVENILE CRIMES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10301, 10 January 1927, Page 5

JUVENILE CRIMES

CASES BEFORE ENGLISH COURTS

ALLEGED MURDER OF BOY BY THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAD,

BOY SAID TO HAVE CUT MOTHER'S JUGULAR VEIN.

LAD CHARGED WITH MURDER OF ELDERLY WOMAN. *

(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Jan. 9, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON 1 , Jan. 8. A disturbing sequence of juvenile crime was revealed in to-day’s Courts. Firstly, William Shillibeer, 14 years-, was- committed lor trial for tlie murder of Albert Hannah, 13 years. The evidence showed ihat Hannah was a member of a “red hand” gang,- a band of young hooligans wearing a red hand beneath their coats. They attacked Shillibeer, who, it is alleged,, fatally stabbed Hannah in the course of a brawl-.

Herbert Crawley, 13 years, was remanded at Clerkenweil charged with attacking his mother and this two-year-old sister with a bottle. He is alleged to have confessed he saw his mother and sister lying in bed, and something came over him, causing him to strike Ixjtii The mother’s jugular vein was severed, and her condition is critical.

Wilfred Reeves, 16 years, was remanded at Cheltenham on a charge of murdering a seventy-year-old woman. The body was terribly battered and was, found in a creek. A band of lads averaging 13 years, belonging to a phantom gang for lobbing and terrorising, were bound over at "Manchester.—A. and N.Z. C.A.