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BOYS BREAK INTO HARDWARE STORE
Baseball Outfits and Fishing Tackle Stolen From Ingram & McMaster
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 5 May 1921]
In Welland Juvenile Police Court, on Wednesday, four very young boys appeared before Magistrate Goodwin charged with breaking into Ingram and McMaster Hardware Store, on East Main Street, on Sunday afternoon and stealing baseball mitts, mask, bat, balls, other baseball material, a quantity of fishing tackle and a sum of money, about eighteen dollars. The boys, whose combined ages would not exceed fifty years, all admitted the thefts. They made two trips. First two of the boys went alone and alter they returned with two other boys. They obtained an entry by forcing a rear window. The thefts were not discovered until late on the following day (Monday).
The Magistrate reminded the boys that the thing that they usually do to boys who steal is to send them away to a school in Mimico, where they would not see their parents until they were twenty-one years of age. However he was going to make an acceptance in this case and put the boys in charge of a society of the church in which they belong, Roman Catholic. The boys were put in charge of Rev. Father MacCaffrey and George Lahey, who will give them a close supervision.
Further than this the Magistrate decreed that the boys would have to attend day school regularly and punctually, and Sunday School every Sunday. They would have to present a report from the teacher of the school to Rev. Father MacCaffrey every week end.
The parents of the boys were forced to pay $9.50 each, as court costs.
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