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Show FAKES AGE TO GO TO PRISON Boy, Sixteen, Wanted Jail of Real Men, Not Kids Confessed 6tealing Auto. Brooklyn, N. Y. "I didn't want to hang Out t. It!, the k'ud arid be sctii away with them." George Topping, sixteen years old, made this statement when the complaint com-plaint of grand larceny against hlin was dismissed by Judge McLaughlin In county court. The Judge turned the youth over to the children's court. George, when arrested May 8, confessed con-fessed stealing an automobile. He gave his age as twenty-one. He was , then sent to the New York city reformatory. re-formatory. Assistant District Attorney Attor-ney Taylor of Brooklyn was given documentary proof that George was sixteen years old, not twemy-une. George looks like a mnn. "I knew I was guilty," he snld, "so I decided to go to Jail with real men and not kids. That's why I lied about my age." |