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Show WARNING TO JUVENILE THIEVES , t THIR DEPREDATIONS ABOUT CITY MUST CEASE. Officers Are Determined to Punish Youngsters Who Impose Upon Their Leniency. The activity among young men and boj'B in Ogden and the nearby towns of Weber county in thievery and other pernicious ' practices have so much, wrought up the feelings of the juvenile court officers and others having to do with the keeping of the peace and quiet of iho community that they have about come to the conclusion that drastic measures must be enforced en-forced in order to check the evil. ' The officers assert that patience has ceased -to be a virtue in this regard and hereafter no leniency will be extended ex-tended the young offenders. The young men nnd boys who have fallen Into these evil ways must, it is said, be given to understand that such actions ac-tions will not be further tolerated and that their tender years will be no shield to them. It seems that the altogether too common practice of boys taking things which do not belong to them, throughout the city, is not only the mischievous work of small boys roving rov-ing about the "streets . but Includes large boys, often wage-earning boys, picking up things of value for the purpose of gain, even stealing bicycles bi-cycles at night and in day time, with, real criminal Intent. Judge Gunnell has had a number of much more serious cases .in the Juvenile Ju-venile court recently, and. the officers have' been gathering facts and making mak-ing extended Investigations. When cases are made plain and the guilty paitles are brought onto tho carpet for explanation, great efforts are then, put forth to have the losing parties made whole, their sympathy for the boy and parents aroused, and. pleas made to the judge to save the boys by permitting payments to be made, etc., without the filing of formal complaints, com-plaints, trial, etc. Judge Gunnell, Probation Officer Jacobs, and other officers, are beginning' begin-ning' to express themselves as ap-, ap-, proachlng the point of losing patience, which may mean vigorous prosecution prosecu-tion of larceny cases, even where a boy had previously borne good 'reputation 'repu-tation and no other offense. Is laid up against him. The judge was heard to say that bicycle stealing must' cease lest the Industrial school become a crowded institution. |