Show YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS S Seventeen years old and a 0 murderer I Harry Thorne Thome has lies arrived at the end en enof 1 of ot his brief brier criminal career A man at fourteen and the he bars barb charged with a capital crime thre three years later That is going in In record recard time Possibly he did dd not ot mean to kill but he had a cocked cock d revolver revolve In his hand and pressed press d close to his victims breast while engaged In tn the act of robbing The trigger was was s pulled pulle and George W V Fassel fell dead to the floor What a tragedy Not alone the tha slaying of or the tha inoffensive young grocer and the grief of or his widowed wed mother and intended bride but also alo the tragic closing of or the career of a youth at the th immature age of or seventeen The shock produced by Saturday sa ur ay nights murder had not nat died away way when a boy of fourteen was shot through the foot while trying to break Into a private residence Two other lads were with I h tho the young burglar when he was shot shat It is bad enough when men men seasoned in crime break into business b houses and homes When boys bO s of tender years take to the road the situation becomes bec mes truly deplorable ble While part of the th blame doubtless rests with th the parents they can not be justly charged with the sole responsibility There are areen en entirely entirely too many places laces of ot temptation for the boys and girls as well The laws are not enforced with vigor Juries are too lenient with w th criminals who have hae been caught and last lost but not least there is too much maudlin sentimentality after murderers have haye been beon con convicted convicted I It would seem that the time has ar rived for vigorous action on the part of or orthe the authorities and more mare watchfulness ss on the part of the parents and guardians Salt Lake Is a a great and growing rowing city It must not become noted as s the abiding place of or lawbreakers and a 0 nursery of or the criminal classes It is true that bad men chased out of or Butte generally head in this direction that those going east from San Fran Francisco Francisco Francisco cisco and other Pacific coast points drop off the trains in fn search of or victims in Utah also that migratory ry crimi criminals criminals criminals nals in their travels across the conti continent continent continent nent generally take In Ogden and this thi city on the way A more mor careful watch upon these tough characters is absolutely absolutely absolutely essential Let them be bo rounded up immediately upon arrival before they have a chance to operate It is not enough to merely locate their ren rendezvous rendezvous rendezvous and arrest them after a murder has been committed or some Inoffensive citizen knocked on the head while peacefully wending his way homeward after his hi days das work It was known to the detective force of this city that thata a now new gang of thieves had arrived in town There was no difficulty in beat locating beating ing ng them thorn after George W Fassel lay cold in death Had they been taken into nto custody when first observed no opportunity for the commission of ot crime would have been given and th mother and other loved ones of or the un unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate fortunate grocer would have been spared unutterable woe woo and sorrow Citizens of or Salt Lake should Insist upon a general cleaning up Let us re remove remove remove move the snares and pitfalls from the feet of or the young and above all let us make it so warm for these criminals from abroad that the news will wUl be scattered over tho the length and breadth of the land that Utah is not a safe place for members of their detestable fraternity |