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Show HERE'S A BOY WITH A WORKING CONSCIENCE Here's a boy with a conscience remarkable re-markable at the day and age. Alex Mackey, one of a gang of youngsters young-sters who are said to have participated in an assault upon an aged man Sunday night has confesed to his share In the affair. Early Monday afternoon three of the boys were arrested for taking part in the assault A few hours later Mackey approached the police headquarters desk and asked for a key found In one of the boy's pockets. When asked if he wasn't one of the gang, that beat the aged man and If he had any share in It he replied "Yes. I guess I did." "Well, we'll have to lock you up too, I guess?" said the sergeant. "All right." answered the boy. "That's better than expecting every minute to have a policeman lay his hand on your shoulder and arrest you. |