The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-10
BUTTE NEWS.
TEARS OF TWO MOTHERS
Their Appeals to Judge Clancy
Were in Vain.
PLEADED FOR THE BOYS
But the Court Thought the Reform
School Was the Proper Place for
the Youngsters-Six Wers
Sent There.
PLEADED FOR THE BOYS

Judge Clancy believes that the re-
form school is a good place for boys
whose habits are bad; who have start
ed to go the wrong way Yesterday he
refused to listen to the prayers of two
mothers who appeared before him
pleading that their 13-year-old sons
might be turned over to them and CIV
en- another chance instead of being sent
to the reform school. He also did
good business yesterday in the way of
sentencing boys to the school He con-
signed six Of them there, one after an
other, in about an hour.
The first boy landed was James Ben
son, a little, wild-eyeG kid of slender
frame, who was charged by his guard
ian, the public administrator, j. p. Col
Inns with incorrigibiHty. Jimmie is 10,
and has no father and mother. but he
has had plenty of experiences. Mr..
Collins is the gentleman at whose in
stance the charge was preferred against
Jimmie. He recited Jimmie's history
on the stand and gave his reasons for
wishing Jimmie consigned to the re-
form school, He said that he had done
everything thinka BILE for Jimmie, and
had been rewarded by ingratitude and
Instruction. He had assured Jimmie
that he would always befriend him and
protect him and treat him like a son,
but whenever Jimmie came to town at
ter levanting from the orphans home
or throwing down a job, he preferred
to sleep under the school steps rather
than come to his house, for some mys.
FERROUS reason.
According to the testimony of Mr..
Collins, Jimmie became his ward last
spring He sent him to the orphans
school in three weeks and ran away
to Butte with another boy. Mr.. Col
Inns searched the highways and by
ways of the city for a week and found
Jimmie; kept him at his Office a week,
with good care and consideration: then
advised him to do better and sent him
back to the home. Jimmie tried to alb
scond again at a weeks end, but was
overhauled by the warden. The war
den wrote Mr. Collins that he did not
the school. Jimmie caused "disrest"
at the school. He was not bad boy
but he did not follow the rules. They
could not handle him somehow. Mr..
Collins brought Jimmie to Butte and
kept him till July; then he got him
job with Peter Brunetti, milkman,
who needed some one to keep his wife
company while he was distributing
milk. Jimmie kept Mrs. Bunetti COM
pany a day and a half; then her socie-
ty grew irksome and he took French
leave once more. He did not like the
IT told him to come to me If any,
thing happened that he didn't like; I
told him I'd always assist him and pro-
tect him. But he didn't come" said
Mr.. Collins.
No; Jimmie staid away. He slept
under the school steps and was a free
man and a ranger Mr.. Collins wrote
to his uncle, the latter came to Butte,
and Jimmie was rounded up. Jimmie's
uncle took him East. But II days later
Jimmie was back in Butte again. His
uncle wrote that Jimmie was prepar-
ing to depart from the East clandes-
timely, and that rather than expose
him to the danger of being killed on
the roads, he furnished him transport
tation. 1t looks as if Jimmie's uncle
bought off. and bought off cheap.
Since Jimmie's return he had been in
the hands of Mr.. Collins, who had con-
Guided that the reform school was a
good place for him.
HAS he any parents?" asked the
court.
mo. sir"
"Well, Jimmie, what have you got
to say to the gentleman's story?" asked
the court of the lad.
Nothing" said Jimmie, drawing up
his slim form in his chair.
TITS all true, is it?'
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