The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-24
THIS BOY VAS TOUGB.
His Good Aunts Kept Him Out OF Reform
School and He Went to State Prison.

From the Hartford ConranL
The recent numerous arrests OF small boys
for crimes Of one kind or another--.usually bur.
glaries emphasize the fact that one Of the mos,
difficult problems 10 solve Is Just what 10 do with
the little fellows whose footsteps incline in the
wrong direction, at first usually. out OF pure
mischief. They are boys Of from ten 10 fifteen
yeats Of age. who do not fully realize the probs
BILE outcome Of their first wrong step To send
them to Jail sets black mark agains, them that
later entirely proper life fails 10 blot out Often
a word of advice and a helping hand turns their
minds to better channel Of thought; their mis-
S sH ptanks are forgotten and they become
TS Ih mhn Nov ,s,, SnE en one comes TO the
because he likes TO- and ali he good advice in
!he world has no effect upon him Ono such
lads sent up To the Criminal Court a few days ago
where where he cases against them were handled by
IN Ike &s %hSn that hs was back
He used often 70 advise with the diaeren, people
an otherwise hopeless life was lifted up out Of
It's desp3ndency by his kindly words. One morning
nmong the prisoners was brighteyed. handsome
boy VINO had been brought in for some trivial
misde'neanor; His mother was dead. but his
father came along and asked that the lad be sent
mother pleaded against sending him there, prom
ising TO keep an eye on him. The boy promi sed
all right, and the Judge sent him and his aunts
away happy. Two or three months later one
morning he saw the andsome little boy again
Send him 70 the reform school, said The father
No, no, said the aunts: we'll take care of him I"
The case was adjourned and the boy was held
I'LL next morning, M he might know something
OF what awaited him in case the decision was
against him In the end he was let go About
three months later in came tho little fellow again
WIN the same advisers hrrayed against and for
MN. lie was submitted 10 a still stronger dur
ance, al the end OF which, with the handsome
face Hooded with tears and his voice husky with
promises, he was set at liberty again.
Time passed and nothing was heard from the
boy. Judge Egglcston, meanwhile. had been
called TO higher place that Of States Attorney
extradiiing OF a man wanted for highway rob,
berry. The robber resided in New York, had
information that man loaded with n large sum
OF money was TO cross the brdg re ON his way home,
had slipped up here and laid In wait for the man
knocked him down and robbed him. then skipped
back to New York again Ii was not so ain RuIar
a case that II impressed itself upon the States
Attorneys mind especially beyond the fact
thht the criminal was To be prosecuted by him
Walking down Central Row ono morning he saw
the iather OF the handsome boy 81 his police court
experience and, as he had not heard OF the lad
ioI years, he turned back and asked the father
what had become OF the boy. What has become
Of the boy, sir Don't you know that you are
man, Sure enough, the man whom he had ex'
radited was none other than the handsome dark
eyed boy, whom he had tried so hard TO befriend
and make a man Of He had dIifted 20 New York
fallen In with the worst elements became a notoi
ious crook, and this was the climax He was
sent to prison for five years. dying soon after his