Show A vad of boy an amusing in stanca of the contagion af example has recently been afforded by a case in the berlin police court reports the outrage on the railway and the stories of brigande brigands bri gands which have lately filled our newspapers seem to have acted on the imagination of two boys named oscar and george may they determined to become ban flits and they prevailed on several of their schoolfellows school fellows to join them the average age of the band was thirteen they inaugurated their defiance of the law by boldly playing truant and then they tonic refuge in the wilds of the grunewald where in true brigand fashion they hid themselves after a night passed in this fashion they felt the pangs of hunger and consequently they sallied forth at an early hour and seized the milk cans and baskets of new rolls which had been left at the doors of the neighboring villas this however they thought was scarcely heroic and their nest step was to garrote an old gentleman who was taking a morning stroll in the park somehow or other the berlin police got wind of the affair and the juvenile bandits were seized they are now languishing in grew some dungeons where by means of a cane administered at intervale it is hoped that they may be made aware of the historic fact that in northern europe brigandage is an anachronism pall mall budget |