Show LINDSAY CAllS BROWN ROWN fRAUD AND ND AS IMITATOR MO In a a. letter to the Utah Juvenile court commission Judge Ben B B. B Lindsay Lind Lind- Lindsay say of Denver severely criticises es- es ex- ex Judge Willis Brown Brown of this city Tl The e communication which was as rece received ed by ty y Gov Cutler Cutler accuses Brown of arrogating arrogating arro arro- gating t to himself all the good Id ideas as that have ever originated in Juvenile court work Brown is declared to be lie a plagiarist making false representations and I encouraging circulation of advertising II statements of a lecture bureau full of lies about himself and juvenile laws claiming like a quack all the credit orall oI of or all the work of others in ina a dozen States Tha Denv i Judge declares that Judge Brown in his in in the East is representing himself as still th the Judge e o the Juvenile court of Salt Lake City and that he is away on a four months four months months' leave of absence Lindsay who is ds is having having hav have ing troubles of his own Denver in em am- emphasizes m. m the charge of plagiarism The he letter says in part To th thA Juvenile Court Commission of the State of Utah Gentlemen Gentlemen On On the of the present month at Chautauqua N N. Y T. Willis Brown delivered a lecture on the subject of the Juvenile Court He represented that he TV was as the Judge of the Juvenile court of Salt Lake and stated to Mrs Sarah Platt Decker the president president dent of or the National Federation of Womans Woman Womans Woman's Wom Wom- an ans an's a clubs who was conducting meetings at Chautauqua N N. Y T. that he had been given a leave of or absence for four months by you to lecture in this country and In England on Juvenile courts Palpable Fraud I am am writing this letter to you to tell teU you he Is making this statement which I presume to be true and although I found him guilty y of t the most palpable misrepresentation misrepresentation e td ya a and fraud a in his dealing aW with m the Juvenile court subject I can hardly believe he would at public Chautauqua make a statement of this kind and represent represent represent sent h himself as Judge of your court Unless un un- less It was a fact although some other statements of or his brought to my attention were so wilfully and deliberately false that I can only assume for the reasons mentioned that there should at least be bea a limit to his misrepresentations I have hae been actively engaged In Juvenile Juvenile Juvenile Ju Ju- Ju- Ju venile court work for nearly seven years Brown came came to to Denver about five years ago as a talker to boys boy's on the evils of ot cigarettes He was refused admission to our out schools through my influence which he appealed to I 1 succeeded In having the ban against him raised He attended a great many of my lectures on the Ju Juvenile Juvenile Ju- Ju venile venn venn- court and spent a great deal of time In my court and In seeking my compan company com com- pan pany He came to me In the winter of ot 1905 with a Juvenile court law that was proposed proposed pro pro- posed In the State of Utah which I understood un un- un- un t had l been agitated by t the Women's Wom Wom- Women's ens en's club of Salt al Lake He was was' sW sWI very I anxious to have It In such shape that i he could be appointed Judge although he was not a lawyer and had never resided in Salt Lake He told me that he be believed believed be- be that the system of the Denver Ju Juvenile venile court in dealing with boys on honor hon hon- or or- orand and sending them to the State Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial school alone without an officer and that the s system stem under the laws which I I had after years of experience and bard work got through the Legislature of our State making adults legally responsible for th the faults of ot children was his ideal of such a court and he wished to establish lish in Salt Lake a court based on the methods which he had learned in Denver and end so frequently heard me describe In my mv lectures I believed that the fellow was all right and I I certainly wish to help anyone so disposed and he readily enlisted my sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy and nd confidence so that at his re request request request re- re quest I wrote letters to those In authority authority author author- ity In Salt Lake requesting his appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment as Judge of oC their their- court lIe He afterwards afterwards afterwards after after- wards Informed me that my recommendation recommendation dation had secured for him that honor and he proposed to advocate the Denver system and at the time I am free lo to say I believed he was capable of ot doing so until matters that I shall complain about recently came to my attention and it is only because of f my interest in the Juvenile court which Brown Is ill cheapening cheap cheap- ening and degrading by false statements he is making and the spectacular horse horseplay horseplay horseplay play he Is bringing into It it that I take this action actton Stole His Thunder I accused him him of deliberately and wilfully wilfully wilfully wil wil- fully trying to create the Impression that the laws b he tells about In his lectures i originated with him In Utah and that the system of administrative work of the Denv Denver er Juvenile court likewise had a elm sim similar liar ilar origin He has so carefully and studiously studiously studiously stu stu- Imitated the lectures he has heard me deliver that even some of the stories he has heard me tell of my experience he be has has' brazenly and falsely attributed to to himself without t even the slightest Intimation of ot the fact though he spent long hours In my personal company hearing hearing hearing hear hear- ing th these se things He has never given so BO far as I can learn even a a. suggestion that the material and substantial parts of the laws he seeks In his lectures to create the impression that he alone i is 1 responsible for tor originated among lawyers In Denver and Chicago He lie gives gies credence published In a circular circular lar issued by him that the Salt Salty Lake Juvenile Ju- Ju Juvenile Juvenile Ju Ju- venile court was the first separate Juvenile Ju Ju- venUe venile court venile-court court In this country He knows this Is a lie He knows that Judge Stubbs of or Indianapolis Ind Judge Heisler Heisler Heisler Heis- Heis ler of ot Baltimore and I think some others were Judges of such separate courts before before be- be fore Brown w was ts ever heard of ot he knows that such separate courts have not half haIt i the power as a court with general jurisdiction Jurisdiction Juris Suns diction like that in Denver and Chicago He tells teUs his audience that he sent half the parents In certain years vears to Jail when he knows that the Supreme court of or orR R Utah this hg great held e J Juvenile that nl he c court hadn't r of fa any his ri right to send In Inthis inthis d anybody to Jail fail all Any man who will boast of doing such things when he has no right to and probably probably probably ably did not Is absolutely Incompetent to occupy such a position and I do not wonder ogg that ha hauf the e Salt sL Lake J Juvenile n l court o became legally Involved and the coni contributory contributory con con- i delinquent e fal law which 1 he bold boldly 11 fw copied I from the State of Colorado as ashad I had written It with my own hands years before was declared unconstitutional in inn your State at This was because of the ignorance Jg- Jg ff norance n and Incompetent c e manner in which it had been put In by Brown and given as his own to the discredit and be belittling belittling be- be of one who had helped him I repeatedly told him that his court had no right to try parents or adults as had the Juvenile court t tf of f Denver because of the t bungling way th h he h had copied le leeg eg our sra law Court Only a Shell Brown knows well enough If he wanted to tell teU the truth that the court he presided presided presided pre pre- sided over In Salt Lake City was a mere shell It has no power as has the Juvenile court of Denver because of its Us general chancery and criminal law powers to reach the cause of crime It would have been a a. thousand times better for the cause of ot the children had a a court of general Jurisdiction with power to punish those who violate laws for the pr protection of children been established In the Juvenile Juvenile Juvenile Ju Ju- venile court In Salt Lake and that which Brown presided over had not been In existence existence ex ex- and no one knows this better than Brown for he was was' powerless as Juvenile Judge to do any any- of the work against adults the Denver court has done for years earS I have had occasion to lecture at places where where- he has been and because of or his deliberate deliberate deliberate de de- de- de liberate plagiarism or Imitation of this kind have had to change my mv lecture al almost almost almost al- al most entirely lest Jest I 1 be believed to be copying after a fellow who has without even one little generous reference stolen my thunder and the result of my 3 years ears ears of ot work Jud Judge e Lindsay goes on to tell teU of Brown visiting him last winter and ascertaining as as- that he had been invited to England to give ye a a. course of lectures After leaving him he declares Brown I proceeded to advertise himself as being being be be- i In ing invited to England to deliver a series series' of of lectures on Juvenile courts I and will spend the months of October and September to assist in establishing establish establishing ing courts in the Old World Continuing Continuing Con Con- Judge Lindsay says Im Imagine the people of England in ing inviting a man discredited by the Su Suo Supreme preme reme court of the State of Utah as unfit unfit to hold such a position a man wh who was never a lawyer expounding the chancery and crimi criminal law who has not only permitted but apparently fostered fostered fostered fos fos- and encouraged the circulation of advertising statements of a lecture bureau full of lies about himself and Juvenile laws as these statements are made claiming like a quack all aU the I cre credit it of all the work of others in a dozen States I |