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Show BOY STEALS MONEY 0R SUNDAY-SCHOOL INDIANAPOLIS, . Nov. 13.-Joseph" Stapp, a bright boy or 9, was sent to the Incorrigible house from Juvenile court. Among, other things It was charged that he stole money from his benefactors, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph R. Reeves, to give' to the Christian Sunday-schooli Mrs. Reeves said he would take email amounts and then pretend that he had found the money. He would ask her to save the money for him so he could give it at Sunday-school, in which he seemed deeply interested. "I believe God Just scatters those coins around for me U find for the Sunday-school," Sunday-school," he told Mrs. Reeves. The boy has a face almost angelic. He looks like anything but an incorrigible, but Mrs. Reeves said they had not been able to do anything with him. She said that when she sent him upstairs up-stairs a few months ago to punish him he set the house afire. The house burned down and Mrs. Reeves, who was at the time ill, had difficulty in getting out. The boy himself had a narrow eecape. |