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Show JUDGE WILLIS BROWN JCCTOWILE Former Utah Juvenile Court Head Charged With Crime in Chicago HE ENTERS A DENIAL Sale of Motion Picture Stock Forms the Basis of the Action Judse Willis Brown formerly of Salt Lake and well known here, as the first juvenile court judge in Utah was arrested at the Hotel Sherman In Chicago yester day on a charge of swindling a railway mall clerk out of J100 on a movie stock scheme. The judge was ery indignant when Chicago detectives nahbed him at the elegant hostelry He was stopping there after a tour of the country lecturing on the redemption of incorrigible boys and Inspecting penal institutions. Booked at the detective bureau on a warrant charging him with running a confidence game the former Utah jurist demanded to be allowed to communicate with Mayor W H. Thompson and Chief of Bailee Healy of Chicago. He was tow that neither the mayor nor the chief of police, could assist htm. ! Brown s case will be heard In the Chi cago ponce court this morning accord in st to last night's dispatches. U A Thompson, the railway mall clerk who accuses ac-cuses the judge and brought about his arrest, told the Chicago reporters that bis testimony would make good newspaper reading f rrest Causes Sensation The arrest caused something of a sen satlon in Chicago, where Judge Brown Is well known as the founder of the boys school farm system at Gary Ind. the L steel trusts model town near Chicago. ET He Is also known throughout the eoun-' eoun-' try as the originator of the "Boy City' movement and as an authority and lac K turer an ineorriglnk) boys. F Judge Brawn 8 father Ores m Chicago. & being raster of a chosen on the north cade. The Jndfe told 'the Chicago pott- Seel yea tw day that Thompson, the mail Serk. waa a Mead of his father and that K ' ho set htm at his father's bouse several Bp- vjSasthB ago. Thompson was allowed to mm -."SenmBa an investment in Judge Brown s sKmBmB company at has own naves mc-BErvtHWfrK mc-BErvtHWfrK to Brown's story ngPgneaiisej of Ma tihmdslilp wttb my WE&rt&r the lofSgk sd. "I sold hfca Hlmal my peranwl stack in the cant-BBsrsfiaWE, cant-BBsrsfiaWE, which was to prodnc pictures BBP T jaoftirfbc' on the moral and mental d KwsWst of yesmg people. At this time HMjIMmrls the sands of promoters. gTTrusted for Balance. BPgnnnpapn did not bare the fab samBsfiBSsnUalBnir ' p i'S mmW&SSmo was no tntenJSon to defraud, he sBBBsfltod. to be allow td the shares and than BBB&liftSted bhi part of the contrast by mak BBBMlKsdy the first payment-" PboesWni, rwwever declared that he WteivS&l Se'SrownfblnBn mWHBCUr else a. year ani a batf Ma. KW, aniannWed at the time, was My '.to irodooo jam plays caJeoKted to re- Wt aSt Se3Z&2FeLa Pt U ary E Che of these Aim plays was piuduood B hare and had- a String cbowtng at the m ftitmrtran theater Apparently H did not Ir score heavily bare or elsewhere for then Wt st no record of subsequent prodsctVms fe ham, sjo tax as Sett "La observers wore w atff to on. the ouieipHoe laagulahed. I Lost to iew for Time. Judge Brown was lost to view here for . i a tune. He reappeared during the last session of the stats logadaiur. endear ring without aiitius to set the law r makers to pass a law making the Jars-alls Jars-alls court part of the pubtJe school system. sys-tem. Some time thereafter bo departed from the city Be came back again re eently whereupon be was summoned to COttrt In the matter of an unpaid debt. A Judgment was secured against Mm. Judge Brown was the Bret Juv stills eoort Judge In Salt Lake and for that r matter, m the stats. He came here first f from Denver where be had earned the sanitation of successful handling of f yotmg tncurilalutes through a connection with Judge Ben B Lindsay's celebrated Juvenile court. He was appointed Jove rule Judge by the halt Cake Juvenile court commission He served ant ft 107 when the state lejcnuature passed a law placing the Juvenile court system under the Jurisdiction of the state Judge Brown was not reappointed when this change took pla e Given a Rebuke Although he had considerable success In reforming Juvenile offenders J idge Brown was frequently in hjt water through the methods by which he on ducted Ms court. The Irregularities of bta court procedure flnaOr brought him the condemnation of the state supreme court. The supreme court ordered the release of a fed named Mills from the state Industrial In-dustrial school because of the Irregularity of procedure In Judge Brown s court, where the youth was committed |