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Show BOYS PLAN TO ESCAPE FROM REQUIREMENTS OF SCHOOL LAW, STEAL AN AUTO AND DEPART I "We started for California because we would have been forced to attend school I 'f we stayed." Thus three hoys, who u -j peared before the Juvenile court, cx-I cx-I plained their reason for stealing an aUtO-I aUtO-I mobile from in front of the Dee hospital. The boys, the oldest of whom Is 1 1 i years of ace. proceeded with the ftUtO-j ftUtO-j mobile as far as Preston Idaho, where a , broken steering wheel halted their progress. pro-gress. The theft of the automobile was I pnrt of thi ii plan which the had b.rn 'working on during ihe summer. Their ' ,'rhrme included a careful saving of money for the trip to California. The HcqulrlnK of knowledge necessary for the manipulation of an automobile, was also Included In the plan of the boys, win engineered their adventure as wnuM priaonari of war, bent on escape from a hostile country. The boyi Stayed in Ogden until truan: officers hcran to make life unpleasant for them Then they made an effort to make their wav to California The youngsters were placed on a au- pended sentence to the industrial school with warnlnic from .Tudpc Pan Bulllva.1 that further offenses would result in their forced attendance at the school at 'he expense of the state. |