| Show Wi IDE LINDSEY ot ON WILLIS BROWN Denver Tribunal Writes Scorch Scorching Scorching ing Letter on Oil Former Farmer Col Colleague Colleague league in Salt SaIL Lake A AND A FAKIR Claimed at Chautauqua That He Was On Leave of 01 Absence From Utah Court ourt lie Ire Als MS Iso Irom Judge Writings Them As Ills Own n nOn On llio tM tu Uth otho of t the Hie present month at nt z N X Y Y VIllIs represented ml he h was the jugo of he Itu juvenile court nf of Suit Si on Irnie of if absence nb for four months 11 to t lecture In tills this country countr and England emilO to wo nio live yours years h IP I accuse of deliberately MeI und uil wilfully trying to Ibo Impression loll the laws Ins lie ho tells tell about abOtt In lite l lectures originated with I l 1 huh him In fn lie He It has so 0 carefully the tile lectures In h liaR has hoard heard mo deliver CL that e PIl 11 tho IO stories lie he has inu u tell ell ellof lio hn Ii bra brazenly lii of ot r own experience it enl 1 cI to UI I protest again hint stealing the work 11 ot of f not lint only nij but others who were In Iho the court worK worl before lie he c cr heard of ot oti i I lie Ilo has lins trained framed his end to create reato o e Impressions halt truth Iiii I In tn n 8 deliberately designed de to tr the public nil nfl to In his rather then us ns n un Ull earn ct iI c 1 to lo tell the thu truth Ii and iiiI advance grout greet t cause than limit himself elf Whon When tho people of at Utah bo be clime came acquainted with JUI Drawn late of or the thc Salt Sell Lake Lalo court he h made niad many admirers who to do II te In III hint him an opportunity something for tor oV the homeless boy and the street tret urchin who Is on his b way to 10 the tho bad bid Just JUEt for lor lack tack of a friendly friend word and sv 1 warning tn In time to pre pru tc nt him hun from Irom r in entering wholly into the hit criminal class Snit Salt Lake soon had trouble with withrow Brown row His Hla place pIneo hero was vat found ld not notto notto notto to tit lit him His lUs work worl turned one ono by lne against him bile the forces that back backed ed la him when he first came and md nd lit at atties ties end tho supreme court co urt In a well decision rend him hInt tho the rules rul ot at the law which his hll bt court coutt wa wn supposed to follow allow After Atter till this tho the court coUtt was wea framed new IiI i a law to eliminate him litter after nil other means menns to o dispossess R ss hIm of the had tailed failed Then he ho went away on a 11 lec lee lecture ture turo tour lour arraign arraignment n Now No ow 1 comes a most severe severo ment of htA methods since ho loft tift Snit Salt Ink Lako and Rm It Is hi OI by hy a worker of ot great real reputation in to tho the Juvenile court fiet Jud lieU Ben B D LIndsey of ot Denver Dener Brown had always counted Judge his 1119 Wend friend while ho he was vas In tilt Salt Inlo but how Brown apparently has hall iaP used that friendship is Ii evident eIdent from Crepe charges of ot In It tho the letter letti which la Is l addressed to the tho lio Juvenile court commission slon i The commission has replied to ti Judge that Drown Brown Is i not Judge of the thi court of Salt Lake City CIt and nod that he wn considered HI but not j believed b to 10 be tho the proper person for the tho position The Tho latter loHer reads as ns follows TEXT OF of Court Commission To the tb Juvenile the Slate ot or Utah Gentlemen On the eleventh of tho the present month at nt N Y Brown of oC Oil on tho the subject delivered n 1 lecture tb th tM Court He lie represented that he was Willi the judge JUd o of ot tho the Juvenile court of Bait talt like Lake and md slated to lira Mra t Docker the lie president of Sarah Pin I L I the National Federation l ot of clubs who tIU conducting meetings at rha tiLl N Y iV that I he lied had been lH en given Riven a n leave of absence for tor four months mOat Ii g by liy you rou to I n lecture led ore In I a this t 1119 coun country country try and aiL In l on the juvenile letter to 10 you court 1 I am nm writing this tide because e he 1111 Is this tutu statement which I 1 I presume to bo be true title I nl zil though t hoe gh 1 I found iid him y of the most inot palpable IiI misrepresentation fraud fraudIn In I a dealing etc with lb the e court subject I can believe bellove he lie would nl at n ii public IOU ke n II state statement ment of tills this kind and S m r ent himself elC ns nil of your court unless It H wai u it filet fact although some other ether statements of his brought to my m at attention Attention were vere ere so 0 willfully ant deliberately that I cnn only assume for or ort tho t ha reasons i mentioned lien cc I I lilt I there thero should tit lit least be tL n it limit to Li hi hlll I IN DENVER m NVER 1 I have been heen actively engaged In Juvenile ju enile court work wor for tUI or nearly n arly seven evell bloWn camo cami tu It Denver Lenver t about five years 1150 ugh 1110 as liS fl n II tulker to boys boya on Oil thu tho evils YIh oC Je i Ho lie 11 a was Willi refused nd lid to our through my 11 Influence lI n which blob ho appealed to I 1 KUC hUC KUCIn tet In III I i the bun bUll ii him Itt oh ohI I JIo I I e attended II I tv It I gika Rr lIt I many of my IJ hI 11 1 on tho thiC Juvenile U I u court Ci UI I anti and spent u n great doul ilat cl al of or if time In my III Cull rt and h lid In III my company co III H Q 0 J camo ne to mo 1110 t iio In iii the thc winter rl RI er ot of 1905 I tO tOh O with h I I Ii it Juvenile o court COO ri law ha a I ha I pro 1110 1 0 Ci 11 In lit the Ih hl of or If Utah Ilah which I hlll been b lm II gi I tIed d by II the I hi C viena omen 1 club chub clu of alt Lake hake Ha was WILS ii crr cr Anxious to II have It in KOCh auch bat alt he hu hi be Lit Judge itt III O rh he Ito h WAil plot not I a huh hud hild ver t cr t LI In Salt I iko ko He ii told tC IC that I mt he hI hi believed tho t hii Bl t Denver J Juvenile court In deal r F i ri Jib Ih III Ii n to Ii ha In ho 10 without i Ut I un 1111 I It Iii thu I Ift llio t ter i thu Ihn 1111 which I fler ft I ut or t experience lint In 1 uric go L through It th I lot C If I J I turc ot of f our state l to adults SIl I for Cor Or tl tho thu au I lB C i hi I ii i n hili lii i I I itch finch h u I ot sit ii a ii court cull rI and ini I je I ell to 10 Ii I hIt in I ii salt atilt la It Lalm I kit IL I court COt urt I ell on on 01 I I which Ich ho ii Ii hilt learned lIeu I in II n so C ly Iy I 1 t lo in my lilY III I Ia mT ell e the tho fellow ts 1 as HI nil right I a i t I L Wl wIsh a U to IQ I 3 help lieh p ii II so ao soVI i iI it III Hit lie hI I CO hi I y litt ah a my myhla m I VI J M thY I ly i n 1 nce fit III i that I ho t nl III ath hla iii ii f WrOte tn tip tO tOLI II h Y MI III Salt hnit aH Uka il 1 LI 11 I I lit a ip Ju nt or their court coon lie II t th tl rd lii I mo JOlt I lIlt I my ny m Ie I f ci II m wo red tl for or him hit lii iii Iii inn 1 lIlt II It tie hI to tu a iu Lemier r h m ft A I III r I III free rN to Iii III ily I 1 hu II ln of ot doing lI so o until the tha mn h hUt Ie I I ph uj I rl re c s I t I i y COllie cuine n to 0 my lily n i l on and It II la lb only because of at my toy m Interest In itt the tho juvenile court which is cheap cheapening ening and ani degrading by b the false state statements ments he Is making looking and arid the tho spectacular lar horse horae play liD he lie Is l bringing Into It that I tat take o this action SOME OME CHARGES I t accuse him ot C deliberately I and wIt wil Il fully Cull trying to Id create the Impression that the lawn laWI Ill lu HJ tells about In his bitt lec lee tures originated with him him in Utah and that the system ot or administrative work of ot tile tho Denver Juvenile court III had a similar origin He Ito has hail so care caro tully fully and md studiously Imitated tho th loc lee lectures tures he lie has heard h me deliver dell I that oven even come Iome of ot the stories ha he has hils heard mo ml motell metell tell of or my rny experience ho ha 10 has jas brazenly and falsely lY attributed to himself with without without out lut even een the slightest Intimation of gf the tho tact nut though ho he had spent long hours lIo In Iny my personal Company hearing those things Ho Lct has haj never given Iven BO so far tar as ns I can learn oven eten a n suggestion that the material and ami substantial parts paris oC or till the laws ht he seeks In his lectures to o cre ate lite the tho th Impression that hu he alone Is re ro responsible for originated among lawyers lawyer In Denver Dener and Chicago A t PEW FEW FALSEHOODS He lie gives credence to the statements published In a circular Issued by b him that the Salt juvenile court was WM the first separate Juvenile court cour In this country Ho Ito knows this is a I a lie He lIe knows kriv that Judge Stubbs Stub bs of cit of Indianapolis lis us lad Ind and Judge r of 01 Balti Baltimore more Inore and anti I think SOme others were Judges of ot such a ft 1 separate court bo foro fore Brown ever eer heard of Ho lie knows that such separate court had hadnot riot not halt half tho the power as ns a court with gen gee general g ll eral Jurisdiction like that In Denver end Chicago Ho lIe tells his audiences that he sent half hal the parents In his hili hI court In certain years yearn to Jail when he hEl knows that the supreme court of Or o Utah held that he lie any on right In lii this great juvenile court of his Itis to send end anybody to Jail Any ny man who will boast of doing such sueh things when h he has bins eq right to and auth probably did not Is absolutely incompetent in om potent to occupy such a position and andI I 1 do not wonder vonder that the tho Salt Lake LUke court became legally Involved ond tho the contributory delinquent law which ha lie h boldly copies from the state of ot Colo Cola Colorado ratio rado os ns I r hind hall written It 11 with my own hand haud years before was declared un on unconstitutional constitutional In your state te IGNORANT AND This was because of or tho the Ignorant and Incompetent manner In III which It R 1 Rhia liaa hia been pub in by Brown and given ns as n his Ills own to tho the discredit end and be he belittling ot of one who hall had helped him I t told him that his court had no HO tight right to try parents or adults as us ashad had hail tho the juvenile court of at Denver be because because cause caUso of ot the tue bungling way 1 In which he lie hart had copied call led our law Brown knows well enough If It ho he wanted to tell the tho truth that the court ho presided over In Salt Snit Lake was wa a 1 mere nere shell It hu hull i ino no power as itS did the tho Juvenile court of Denver because of Its It general e II eru I chan chancery chancery chancery cery and criminal law powers to reach the causes of ot crime and all nil on earth that Brown Drown ever could do In his court which he was called from Chicago to tu Utah to create us per his hl circular was to try children TO TRY CHILDREN N NIt It would have hae been a thousand times better for or the cause of thu children bud a n court of general jurisdiction with powel power to punish those who violate laws for far the protection of ot children Scott been tue juvenile court In Salt Sail lithe and that which Brown Drown presided over not been In It existence and no one knew keen thIs better Jetter than Brown for tOI he lie was power powerless less as juvenile ju judge to do any III of the work against adults the Denver court had hod done for years There Then were welo feat teal features features ures urea we wo in Chicago and Denver who had been In the juvenile court from rein its inception desired to Incorporate In Ina a II Ii node juvenile court and Brown Drown got every one onu of these features from these people and not 1101 In hi ono one instance eo to far for ns as t L can Ind hod ban hn ha ho acknowledged edged the tho fact On tho the contrary he lie tells In his hilI lecture neil and that he lie did these things that others had suggested for tor years before ho was over thought of ot And Anti after the tha scoring the court of at Viola Utah gave Brown Browna a na as n a 1 utile man totally mint to preside such stick a u tribunal able lawyers in Utah camo Caine to the tue rescue of nt the tho court und and got ot through n II new now court law that can cnn ical real really ly I do something and which 1 I under understand understand stand Brown Hron had titis 1111 been the tho judge of or although he hits has claimed just tIle the contrary antI advertises elf now an us the tho judge you hove have given n him hint leave of to lecture j EXPERIENCES l One ot or the but best stories In iii my loc turea furnished n it climax of ot un art exper experience leave of ot utica with the tho police ollre who nr or rested boys tar for stealing bicycles und with much mitch effectiveness I 1 told linw I 1 wild sold to the tho th policeman who opposed my 01 methods of jealine with the tho boy that be lie tas trying to recover the wheels arid and we wore trying to recover tho the hoy hays Drown Brown had read thin In our re reports ports antI and heard hard the th effectiveness with which It 1 wIts wan used u clI In III iny Y lecture nIl anil Imagine my nty surprise to nod find It publish published pu ed Id In tn reports lit or his lectures lecture with l other oIlier similar experiences tied Imitations not 1111 so ai brazen hut but so ItO simiLar that I was licensed r one dlo of nf my mr lectures of copying Brown A news paper man lean who reported Browns leer lee turo tore n o tow fw days before came to my rescue find said he had hd read my lilY lecture In a n pamphlet t we Issued before Brown rowil was Wn ever evet e e I heard of In Juvenile courts I 1 have had occasion to lecture ut u places where he has been und end because of or his hh deliberate or yr Imitation tion oC of this kind have had to 10 change my lecture almost entirely lest lost I Ib b j believed to be copying after a 11 a fellow who has without even one little gen gee generous generous erous reference stolen my thunder and the results of my years of work THIEF OF OP THUNDER T I have hae no objection to 10 Browns lee lec lecturing turing Just as all much ns its ho hI pleases velles That Thatis is probably his hh right but gentlemen I Ido J I Ido do most strenuously protest against his stealing not only on the work of my myself m myel self el but others who were In 11 tho th juvenIle court work before ho ever eyer was wits heard of or ns nil I now believe for exploitation rather thany thony any nn sincere Idea Ide to ad nd advance vance vanco a it great eat cause So long bug as tui I 1 be believed that his hi motive was good ha he h had my help and sympathy and even letters letter to others defending him hint from other attack I believed at tho th time to tobo tl tobe be bo unfounded and Indeed I did dill not lot ob oh object object to hla ht hl using my lectures If tf he her h did it In a WilY way ao ito as ns rio to embarrass s mo me mons ns nit II Indicated Ho no has hns deliberately and nd willfully made false falsa statements regard regarding ing log juvenile courts and laws creating false Impressions by b halt half truths and amid framed his lectures and circulars ad aid advertising Il I himself In a 11 manner I deliberately designed to mislead the nubile all to his self aggrandize aggrandizement ment and lo to Increase his Ills Importance as ns asan an ant attraction and money getter gettel bY hy vir virtue the tue thereof rather than an as an earnest worker anxious to tell tehi the truth antI and advance n a great creat cause rather than him self pelf THE EUROPEAN TRIP Last Lalit winter Brown Drown came come to lo my ray house houseIn In Denver anti to my III c court Murt urt chambers where he had been time and time again apparently watching every ee move Inove I 1 Imade Imade made but I supposed for no |
