The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-17
THE ROAD TO RUIN.
what shan We Do with our Bows

The New York World has been COL
lating the statistics of crimes committed
by boys within the last three or four
monshs, and the STORY is frightful.
There are Jessie Pomeroy and the
Blanchard boy to begin with. Two
Kentucky cousins aged Ii and ID espoused
their fathers quarTels, and last Decem-
Der one of them stabbed the other with
his jack-knife in the ribs, killing him.
A boy named Sheridan, in San Fran
cisco, having graduated from the Indus
trial School, where he was sent at the
age of IL for larceny and burglary,
stabbed and killed playmate in less
than four months after he came out
Goody Smith, aged II, In Missouri,
week or two since, first threatened that
he'd knock the id head off of his
school teacher, and then stabbed her
twice with a gimlet, probably causing
her death. Jesse Glass, in Texas, aged
Is, q few weeks since shot man dead
from behind fence, who had killed his
father three years before. Frank But
tan, aged II, in New York State, last
month, after trying to smash the skull
of little girl with ck-hammer,
choked her to death. For some days
she was supposed to have died from &C.
cident. Johnny Brady, San Francisco
boy of IL, went around the Chinese
quarter burning the necks of Chinese
women with his cigar. He was finally
arrested and pistol, pack of cards and
plug of tobacco found on him. Peter
Jones, colored boy of Is, in Brooklyn,
offered his companions three cents for
his share of duck they had jointly
stolen. When his companions refused
to give him back the change out Of a
nickel Peter cut his frie1d's arm with q
razor. Sammy Cole, Illinois, aged Is, is
now in prison for stealing horse. A
Brooklyn boy, aged II, named
Marshall, has been convicted of series
of burglaries netting him So, 500 in cash.
A boy aged 6 years was found drunk
in London last month. He had driven
his father and mother from home and
his grandmother could do nothing with
him. An Ohio boy being weaned went
into decline and suffered from an ex-
cess of saliva, which was relieved by
putting at his fathers cigars. on which
he grew fat. But he reached ten or
T! twelve day and lost his health again.
Being now years old he consumes
three or four per day, and is healthy
and growing. Another Ohio boy, aged
16, shot his brothers head off as he
lay in bed, while showing him show to
shoot on the wing" A Missouri boy,
aged 13, took his pistol to school
and amused himself by swapping it at
the scholars. In the afternoon he suc~
ceeded in lodging ball in the head of a
little girl which ended her Life. The
"boy was severely trounced for his fol-
ly, by his parents, who deeply regret
the occurrence, F" says the local paper. A
boy aged 6, in Pennsylvania, took his
brothers pistol and "playfully
snapped it at boy aged 9 years,
who was visiting him. The bullet en-
tered the BOYS brain
These casses are all represented to be
authenic, names, dates, and places being
given. And we have no doubt they are.
Indeed it is difficult to take up paper
without seeing some story of Juvenile
wickedness, recklessness of life or mali
cious killing, precocious bad habits or
wanton sport, ending in deplorable
casualty on the part OF boys ranging
from to Is years of age. The
doctrine of personal liberty has been
carried to such illogical extremes that
the retraint of children's tempers, ca
prices, and passions is looked upon as a
violation of the Declaration of INDIE
pendence.