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Show SIX BOYS APPEAR I COURT ON SCHOOL SHOOTING Six of the boys who were shooting firearms in the high school assembly ioom during the Classicalia two wet ks ago, at which time Miss Verna David-Son, David-Son, a teacher of the Madison school, was shot in the foot, appeared this morning before Judge Dan Sullivan of the juvenile court for arraignment on J a charge of violating the oitv onll-j nance prohibiting the discharge of fir - i arms within the city limits. Five of the boys entered pleas of ! guilty, but Charles Wood employ. . I counsel to defend him and entered a pleas of "not guilty" through his h1 torney, Captain Hulaniski. The court was impressed by ih1 manly manner in which the boys stated stat-ed their cases, showing a willln--to take whatever punishment mighl be meted out to them by the operation rf the law. But the court was sur prised when each of the boys Stated that he did not know that there was a law prohibiting the shooting of blanks, ar even any kind of firearms within fhi- city, and the furtheT statement ; that they had been given permission by the school principal to shoot blanks luring the Classicalia function. N It was hen i he court asked t he 1 1 boys who had entered pleas of guilty to violating the ordinance, if they bail anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon them, that each one said he did not know of the ordinance, ordi-nance, and had been given permission Judge Sullivan appreciated the attitude, atti-tude, of the boys, but felt it his duty to explain to them I hat no person can give another permission to violate the law. because the law is made to be respected, re-spected, even though the boys and the school authorities themselves were ignorant ig-norant concerning its provisions. No charge was made against anv of the boys alleging the shooting of Miss Davidson At the conclusion of the hearing the mysterv of which bov fired the shot that wounded the teat I er was left unsolved, it is believed however, that the boy who lied t i Idaho the day following the Classicalia Classi-calia may have knowledge that caused Ibis flight. The same sentence was given to each of the fiv.- who pleaded gulli I The court placed the five boys on si Iraonths' probation with each to be un-der un-der the control and supervision of the I court during the time the mmtannn iruns. The conditions of the probation are that none of them will be permit j ted to attend any public dance vvithir Ogden city during the six months and at the end of the present school tern Oil v must get Jobs at Qgeftl worR Qr be sent out to farms to hoe beets and do other manual labor.- Judg,- Sullivan stated thai be ha I never seen boys in the court who were more manly in conduct. The straightforwardness straight-forwardness ofthe boys won them the respect of the court as w. n ;t, ),.ni, ... !tcymnlPtUnirhriPn,w Thrr- nn tempt to dodge the issue or lay n blame upon someone B ()f the boys admitted thai hi mav have been the one who fired the shot that wounded Miss Davidson, although all t lVmf"u h?VP hh' on,-v Wanks, so far as their knowledge went ,KBV,hp UPStlning of counsel for the defendant Wood, it was evident that the validity or the ordinance wi 1 be attacked, as interpreted bv the court, and thai the alleged permission o: the principal will ,,-,, (, deft nso. |