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Show Gunnison Lads Scored By Judge Eight Gunnison boys, Iranging from 14 to 16 years of age-young men who should be in training to take their places in the business world when they are men were assessed fines by Judge A. O. Niel-son Niel-son of the Juvenile court, totaling $117.50 at a session of the court held in this city last Friday and Saturday. Satur-day. The names of the boys are not printed this week, mainly out of respect res-pect for the parents and another reason is the fact that it is the first offense of the young men have been charged with. However, the names are on record in this office, together with the charges placed against them and in the event either or all of them are again summoned before the court, a full record can be published. Two of the boys pled guilty to disturbing dis-turbing the peace by loitering about the telephone office, smoking cig-arets cig-arets and disturbing ithe peace of the telephone operators. Both tpf the boys were given a fine of $5 and were given a strong lecture by Judge Nielson and advised to stay away from the telephone office. Four of Ithe 'other 'boys were charged with appropriating automobiles auto-mobiles not belonging to them and taking "joy rides." All entered pleas of guilty, acknowledging that they took two automobiles while the owners were attending conference, and drove about the valley. Judge Nielson told the youngsters that chey could be prosecuted in the district dis-trict courts and that if found guilty would be subject to imprisonment in the jails for .a period of six months to five years. He gave the erring boys a sound lecture and cautioned them about further acts. Each of the boys was given a fine of ' $25 and they were given until August first to make the full payment. Two -"Peeping Toms" were not only fined $5 each, but the boys were given a most severe lecture by Judge Nielson. These two boys secured boxes and piled them high, thus enabling en-abling them to "peep" through the rear windows at the telephone office where the lady operators sleep and while the latter were preparing to retire. Judge Nielson, in giving a lecture to the wayward lads, hinted that all blame was not attached to them, and that if the parents would interest themselves in their children it would not be necessary for them to face punishment at the hands of the law. |