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Show FOURTEEN SMALL BOYS IN THE DISTRICT COURT . This was kindergarten day In Judge Morse's court, when fourteen boys ranging rang-ing from 8' to 16 years of age, were arraigned ar-raigned on charges of incorrigibility.. The majority of the boys were accompanied accom-panied by their parents. Not a few of them were newsboys, andi ail claimed that' they, had been led into trouble by bad companions. - The first case called was that of the State against George Cox. As he had been released on bond, and sent to Bear ver by1 his father, the case was continued. contin-ued. 4 The case against Clifford Hill, Carl Winsness, Henry Kay and Clair Sha-gogue, Sha-gogue, charged with burglarizing the candy stand of Andrew Gray on South Temple street on February 25th, and taking ta-king about $20 worth of merchandise was then heard. v Three of the boys were also accused' of taking a puree belonging to A. Hadley and containing $3, from his bathroom at the Sanitarium.' Their parents were present and artced that the boys be not sent' to the reform school, and stated that they could control them and keep them out of further trouble. I Henry Bates and. Henry Woods were then called for examination.. ' Victor Scoggln, dealer In hides and pelts. Bwore that on the night of February Febru-ary 28th. three pelts were stolen from his barn. He said he tracked the thieves to a barn where the boys were found with the pelts. F. J. Durst was called and corroborated corrobo-rated the testimony of Scoggin relative to the finding of the pelts on the back of a donkey near the Warm Springs. Patrolman Parry said that he arrested arrest-ed the boya, and that one of them admitted ad-mitted having taken the hides; he also said 'that the Bates boy had been In trouble before, but that the Woods boy had never been, arrested before to his knowledge. Patrolman Sperry testified that there was a. warrant out for Bates on a charge of larceny, he having been charged with stealing coal from the Short Line, and that he. is wanted In Park City on a charge of burglary. John H. Woods, father of one of the boys, testified that his son was 14 years old; that he was able and willing to provide pro-vide a home for .him; that he did not want him to go to the reform school, and that he could control him. H. H. Bates, father of the other boy. testified that his boy was 13 years old, and that he did not know there was a warrant out for him in Park City. He admitted that he could not control him, though he had tried to do so. The . case of the State against Ross Moore, an Omaha newsboy, was . then called. Patrolman Emll Johnson was nworn and testified that he had arrested Moore on a charge" of vagrancy, for which he was sentenced to serve sixty days, as well as a term for assault and battery. He testified that Ross was one of the worst boys In the city; that he prr.oked cigarettes, and was an all-around bad boy. This was corroborated by Patrol-mar Patrol-mar Sperry. Ross says he is more than 18 years of age, and accordingly cannot be sent to the reform school. His case was continued con-tinued until March 18th, and' an effort will be made to learn his exact age from his mother, who is in CaHfornla. Upon motion of Attorney Dana T. Smith the case of Parley Powell, charged with incorrigibility, was continued con-tinued without date. The case of Andrew Tonneson, aged 15, was next called. He was accused of having, on February 21st, broken into the store of Jenkins & Ashby and ta king merchandise valued at $5. The case of Kddie Knox andi George Jaesrhke, charged with breaking Into the Fair store on February 21st and stealing merchandise, was next called and several witnesses examined. August Au-gust Jaeschke, father of the boy, testified testi-fied that the accused was 13 years old and had caused considerable trouble. He said Jhat he had been away from home for the past eight months and consequently could not control hi9 boy. He thought that now he was going to be home he could keep him within bounds. Mrs. Knox was next called. She testified tes-tified that her boy. Kddy. was 12 years old and had been in trouble before. An adjournment was taken until this afternoon, when the matter of committing commit-ting the boys will be decided by Judge Morse. |