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Show BAD BOYS IN j NEW YORK CITY fo New York, March 8 There were ,p 2.000 fowor "bad" boys and girls in .j New York during tho last year than In the. previous twelve months, ac- 1 $ cording to the annual report of the ! ? Children's court. The decrease lo ? I the number of juvenile delinquents is . PJ from 11,494 to 9,491. and includes a & falling off in all varieties of juvenile . jl crimo. Only two per cent of nil the trans- J gressors were girls. American-born - ' boys wero moro troublesome than tb, t 4 children of any other nationality. ' .$ There were 702 American-born child- ren arrested; a great many of Uiem ta were of foreign parentage, however. jcs Italian .children came next with 631 tio offenders, Russians next with 617, j and Germans next with 37 jb |