Show Boy Prisoners Prisoner's Plea Ingenious at Least LeastA A youth In the Indiana state prison recently sent a plea pIca to the state board of ot pardons pardon In which he said ald I I am only a boy of ot seventeen and dont don't think I ou ought ht to be he required to 1 live up to the laws that I never ne had I opportunity to learn leun what they were In school and It seems as ns though about tenths nine nine tenths of the ers of Indiana do n not t understand them either The Cie bo boys boj's s letter Jetter amused more than It Impressed because the law he was convicted of was the law Jaw against stealing automobiles Under ordinary conditions the time youth would bo bl In the In Indiana lana state atory and not In the state prison where more moie hardened and older con con- convicts convicts nets are aro sent but the new reformatory reforma reforma- tor tory Is not yet jet et sufficiently completed to house many more than about half hult of Its Intended capacity of 1 1230 50 prig pris Indianapolis polls News j |