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Show JfElE JUDGE RAPS MESSEW6EB MHEM8 Declares That Sending Boys to Evil Resorts Is Evidence of Depravity. Five messenger companies which have their offices on Commercial street among tho resorts there camo in or a scoring Tuesday at the hands of .Judge li. G. Cowans of the .Juvenile court. William Giddins. ageil 17, was before the court for frequenting a poolroom. Jle admit ad-mit led I his and .Judge'' Cowans, after ascertaining that he was a messenger boy, asked him if he was required, in the line of his duty, to vist nouses of ill-fame on Commercial street, and Victoria Vic-toria alley. The boy admitted that he was. He further stated to the court, that five messenger companies the A. D. 1 .. Crescent, Melmonl. National and a new concern which has just started have their offices on Commercial street. "There ought to be a State law.'" declared Judge Cowans, ''compelling! messenger companies to hiiuc men instead in-stead of boys. The employer of a messenger mes-senger boy who will send him to a house of ill-fame gives evidence of depravity de-pravity " The'Ciddins boy, who did not appear to be a bad youth, was permitted to go on his ov.'ti recognizance. |