Show BOY WHO FRAMED HIMSELF GETS 25 YEARS IN PRISON desire to appear tough causes youth to confess many crim crims crimes s council bluffs iowa ray II 11 sixteen of wichita kan arrested in council bluffs was so anxious to appear tough that lie confessed to a dozen or more crimes and Is now cow serving 25 years in the iowa penitentiary without so fur far as the police can now discover ever having committed a single crime the council bluffs courts are unable to release him and his case Is to be brought to the attention of the governor with the request that the boy be pardoned was a boy tramp for t two 0 years he has been tramping around the country doing odd jobs but he be will tramp no more unless iolas governor gives him a pardon 1 I wanted to be known as the worlds toughest boy he confessed just before he started for the state prison 1 I got a great kick out of the story I 1 told but the kick Is all gone now im in for it derlys a innocence Is not based on his own denial of his stories but on the investigations made by the pouce pollee since his sentence admits hes bad egg came into the council bluffs police station one cold night and asked for lodging after he had been in the place an hour or so he told the chief of police he was a bad egg but |