Show I Stephenson Itclcn cil I The reform school boy Earl Stephenson Stephen-son was again brought before the court on the petition of the managers of that institution that he be sent to the penitentiary peni-tentiary as an incorrigible AttorneyS Attorney-S P Armstrong on behalf of the boy i argued that the indictment under I which Stephenson was committed was defective and that ihe could not be held under It His crime to which he pleaded plead-ed guilty was that of burglarizing i Hirschmans shoe store on December 11 1892 and for which Judge Zane sentenced sen-tenced him to the reform school The only charge the reform school people had against ihim was that he had runaway run-away He had been in the institution 19 months and had conducted himself so well that he was a trusty The defendant said that as he had conducted himself well ever since he had been In the school thathe applied to be discharged but the board refused to let him go although others who had not done as well as he had were released re-leased and he therefore ran away Assistant District Attorney Howat thought no harm would be done by allowing al-lowing the lad to go and Judge Bartch suspended sentence and Stephenson was discharged much to his satisfaction |