Show BOYS BURGLARIZE STORE AND HOME Buy Box of Matches Intending to Set House on onS S Fire I I LAND IN COURT Lads I Six lo to cn Eleven Years Old OM Bad fiut Deeds of or Older OIlier S Ones One They Sa Say Buying matches match's for the thel purpose of setting a house on fire was wag the questionable ques ques- ambition of ot a quartet of small boys who were arral arraigned ned In the thc Juvenile juvenile juvenile Juve juve- nile court yesterday esterday As the boys bos were later allowed to go 10 CO for the Iho present their names wen wen- not made public Last Sunday nl night ht the tho story J developed de- de eloped a n. number of boys bOJ said to be bea bea a a. part of a gang who are arc committing d depredations in lii the Eleventh ward ivard broke into the store run by J r Mrs Irs P. P C. C First South nd md Seventh e East A screen was wa taken takemi down and thE he boys climbed In iii by hy the time aid of oC a number of oC boxes The TIme store was ransacked ransacked ran ran- sacked but the only articles missing aside mom 5 fj cash casim were small and Impossible to name Four boys boy were welo arrested charged with the time crime and amid were brought be- be ore Jull Judge c Brown ye yesterday They were vere diminutive specimens of oC humanly human human- ity ly the time youngest oun esl only C 6 G. G the eldest I 11 1 They Timey ey were wet sobbing and nd tear stricken cn when brou brought ht to the bar of oC justice and between sobs SOiS of fright told toM as much of or the stor story as they could The They hadn't meant to do llo wrong the they plead plead- ll- ll ed d. d They knew It wasn't right but they hey didn't dream It was wron wrong Honest judge we didn't honest spoke poke up one of oC them The Time smallest one of the gan gang echoed his companIons companIon's words with whim a 1 saire I nod of oC the lie head We c seed th them nl things In there we ive did tild an aim we just wanted to see what It was like e to tobe tobe toe be e wicked I guess But Dut we aint mean We Vc 0 jest want wanted d to be like the time big JI boys boy After Older One Ones The Tho judge wanted to learn the lie names of the older ones In order that the hey too might be bc brought into court But the little fellows claimed the they could not remember the time names name of the laI larger arger er boys boSo But they thought It was all II right to do as they did did Just because because be- be cause ause the other boys bos did You wont won't tb do It an any more will ivill willou you ou asked Judge Brown Four FOUl little heads nodded a decided negative four pairs pah's of eyes ees opened wide vide at the promise of or clemency con- con tamed In the tho question four tour little forms Corms from their thick drooping posture posture pos- pos ture ure and amid four dirty hands dug unostentatiously unostentatiously unos- unos at four pairs of or tear- tear eyes Now Ill I'll tell you OU what I want you ou boys to do said the lie Judge I want wanto to o learn the names of tho the other h boys ys Something Something- vel very ver very bad has been done clone one I dont don't believe you little little- fellows fire bro ro to blame I think It Il Is your old older r The They should know Jet bet tel cr or than to tI try to lend lead you OU little chaps mist stray ray It later developed de that the four COUI lads lied lad bought hought a live-cent live box of or matches with which time the they intended to set fileto fire file to o the home of Mrs Airs Langford be- be Sixth and Seventh East The They ha lad had said said- Lets burn tho the old dago up When hen questioned as to their reason rea- rea son somi the they gave e none When hen asked if IC the Limey hey had thought that a little baby next lext door dool to the lie Langford home would be o burnt up too they said they had hall forgotten that lint and they hey shook with he the fright of It Broke Into Inlo Home Ilonie The same sanie me boys bos had imad broken into the time theLan Lan ford home ami broken open some sonic and boxes ami al taken a number of oC f small articles including a pocketbook pocket pocket- t- t bool book ook containing some old pennies They hey returned d a number of the time pen pen- tennies ten ten- lies nies and ammi promised to restore the rest The Time case was not pressed a against them hem as Mrs Langford was l averse IS to goIng to that extreme on account of oC the ho tender a age e of the time children The Time mother of one of oC them a agreed to o pay back 1 of f the 5 G fj stolen from oni Irs Mrs Poujade so Ute the Pie quartet was re- re leased eased |