Eureka Reporter | 1903-09-25 | Page 6 | Eleven-Year-Old Burglar Whose Case is under Investigation

k 1 ELEVEN YEAR OLD BURGLAR WHOSE CASE IS UNDER investigation U at the age of eleven years little isabella maguire of oakland cal Is a burglar she Is now under observation at a hospital and she has developed a strangely marked crim inal propensity which la Is in entire con with her physical appearance nothing about the child s appearance gives a hint of inherited taint yet according to the mother of the little girl she has an six abnormal desire to steal things just for the sake of steal ing Pose possessed essed of a wandering spirit she haa has repeatedly run away from home roving about despite her youth in strange places and under conditions that only a professional tramp would select again she would steal any thing from money to a slate pencil was unsafe near the child s reach one of her offenses a year ago was the theft ot of 80 from a trunk in which her mother had hidden the money the child after taking the coin parted with it in a few minutes gov ing the whole amount to a companion why she stole it U Is beyond her to make sats satisfactory factory explanation some thing told me to take it Is her only statement in the matter her conduct at school was such that it was impose sible to keep her there in spite of her mother s many efforts