Show iEJCE HIftQc1 r ftk11 N rg 5 The expected happened yesterday In Judge TIminonys court when throe small boys were convicted on their own testimony of stealing castings from the Portland Cement work = They were IDmll Morandl Carlton JUicy and Alf Kupfer Heretofore It has been the custom of the Judge In consideration mainly cf the fact that the City had no decent place In which young offenders could be placed to give the youthful thieves a lecture shake over them the horrors of the reform school and allow al-low them to go A month ago however how-ever the Judge served notice upon the young hoodlums and thieves that patience pa-tience had censed to be a virtue and told several members of a gang who were up before him that from that date any lad who was convicted of hoodlumism or thieying or any of the offenses that the youths are usually brought up for would be sent to the city jail no matter whether the place was IH for a youth or not The youthful trio were the first to face the Judge since the notice was sercd upon the bad boys of tho town and the threat was carried out each of the defendants being sentenced to pay a fine of 10 or be Imprisoned In the city Jail for ten days The lads were V9ry gay when they first appeared In court but whenthay heard the sentence their feelings un derwent a change and there was sobbing sob-bing and blubbering galore It Is I no use said the Judge to temporize In such cases 1 realize that the city Jail Is not the propel place In which to confine lad of tender years but that Is not the fault of the court nor of tho Police department If the youthful I thieves are arrested merely for the purpose of being brought Iii p here glen a lecture and turned loose only to go and steal again then It were better that they were never arrested at all and Is In the nature of a notice that no matter what crime they may commit they would be safe from pun ishment because there arc bad men In the Jail with whom they are liable > to come into conflict My experience however has led me to believe that there ate many alleged bad men in the the Jail to whom the youthful crooks could give pointers rather than be in danger of receiving thorn The rule I Invoked some time ago will hi In vogue hereafter and It will not make any dif ference whose son may come before me I It was from Scoficld look you 1 came icmarkcd Henry Davis I ama am-a coal miner however an would be glad Jf J I could IJO allowed togo back there I understand you Judge that you rarely If over look you fine a man when he llrst appears This look I youIKmy list appearance and I am not at all pleascd with the impression that Jseexn J to have made Ium ready and willing go S You may i S Frank Murphy was called and as he uncoiled klmsHf 1 and loomed 1 upward for a space of about 6 feet c i he admitted that the altitude was u trine too high for him and the load ho could get aong very com tably with onthe seashore was a oy painful task at ItSO feel Could he have half an hour In which to leave town 1 He could said the Judge and there would be no trouble in case he stayed twice that timeS S time-S 6 t 5 5 5 William Barrol 1 looked ns though ho might have swallowed the contents of a keg but he said he did not care so much how he looked as how lift felt lIe had a desire to avoid the Inside of the S Jail and If a promise to walk straight In tIle future wouldbe taken ns col lateral by the Ju1ge he was prepared to offer It Your promises are not what they were In the years gone by Mr Barrel It will br 5 straight 5 S j 5 Albert Richards who left his team untied failed to tell the court why and this delinquency cost him 2 S S S E II Lockwood said he had never had the exquisite pleasure of meeting the Judge before ihlx limp and meetng al due respect to the court he did not want to have that honor again With a promise that he would seek out I Btralghtcr Ways he was allowed to go S 0 S The docket ended at this point |