The adventures of a 16-year-old girl "Houdini" were related, recently at Croydon Juvenile Court.
She was charged on remand with breaking her recognizances to be of good behaviour by stealing a bicycle. There was a further charge of stealing another, which she was stated to have taken after absconding from the home she was sent to a week before.
The superintendent said: "She got
wire and-broken glass on it. over an 8-ft: wall which has ieee "After she had been brought back by the police she was locked in a room where the windows were guarded with iron bars and wire netting. She found means of unscrewing the bars and destroying the netting, but, was discovered when about to break the window."
A police officer said that the girl' was found at London Docks, where she had gone apparently to try to smuggle herself aboard a ship. Her, idea might have been to go abroad, because she had a, great aversion to having to appear again in court, The Bench ordered the girl to an) approved school,
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