Show chicken thieves nabbed reports of the of hen roosts boosts have been plentiful of late the thieves apparently completely covering up their tracks this morning however the police were successful in alighting alight iri 9 on the robbers ll 1 roost and taking in half a dozen young reprobates who have been engaged in the nefarious business the parties arrested were fred tremayne harvey gilbert Gilb eft joseph ads amson henry wilson morris caldwell and george they are all boys and when accused by the officers after the arrest made a clean breast of their doings they implicated a chinaman known as wong chin and said that he had bad told them to teal steal all the chickens ducks and turkeys burky they could and he would buy them the boys did the stealing and the heathen purchased the fowls as brought to him and has been doing a big business in this line he was also arrested today and held for trial on the t h e charge c ba r g e of receiving stolen property all of the accused are now in custody awaiting a hearing bearing the arrest of these boys again raises the question as to what dis disposal should be made of them justice er has suspended sentence in several cases butchis but this does not have a salutary effect the justice however is placed in a dilemma it if he be sentences the boys to imprisonment there is but one place for their confinement the city jail ail which is entirely unfit for the purpose it is a proper place for the usual class of offenders that conae come before a police court but not for boys of tender years where there is any hope tor for their reformation reformat ioa there depraved men accustomed to filth and crime are placed for a short period and the capacity circumstances and arrangements of the jail are such that boys under sentence of imprisonment must be put with this class claas of criminals and instead of their punishment acting as a check on their downward career they become hardened and despe desperate rate and are incited to further deeds of lawlessness lawles it is about time that the city council were considering the providing of a separate building or division of the jail where wayward boys can receive the penalty of the law and at least be kept clean and protected from more thorough tuition in crime while under the cites care |