The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-02-19
LETTERS ARE FOUND
.uy Wildly Charged With
Rifing u S. Mail.
BOY IS QUESTIONED
Parents Apply to Have Son
Sent to Reform School.

Guy Wildly, the 14-year-old boy who is
charged with entering the Santa Fe de-
not and robbing the Harvey news stand
and also r1hing a United States mail
pouch in the baggage room of the depot,
was taken before the United States ofic-
ers yesterday and closely questioned
about the matter. The boy is said to
have told several conflicting stores in
regard 70 the robbery and each time i'm
plicated a colored man, but just who
this colored man is he could not tell. The
boys parents have made application to
have their son sent to the reform school
and the hearing will be before Judge
! Wilson some time this week. At the
present time the government officials are
| considering whether or not they viii
prosecute the boy OF whether the SEN
tence to the reform school viii be sufit
| cient for the present
Rined Letters Are Found
Yesterday Inspector Hossford and As
sistant Postmaster Jewett made an ex-
animation of the baggage room at the
station to find, if possible, the letters
which were missing from the rlfed
pouch. a portion of the floor was taken
up in the center of the room and a large
number of letters We're found. Some Of
them had been cut open and the greater
portion Of them had not been disturbed.
In some of the letters were money or
ders. etc, and in one Of the letters was
d life insurance policy. It seems that
after the pouch was riaed the letters
were pushed through the cracks in the
heavy planldng in the baggage room. in
order that the deed would not be discov-
cred when the baggage men returned in
the morning. The letters were taken to
the postoffice and over a hundred of them
were forwarded to their destinations.
The other letters were kept here in case
the boy should be prosecuted for the
crime AS will be remembered, the cut
pouch was placed in a common tie sack
and the riiing of the mail was not dis
covered until after the Panhandle train
had left the city The authorities were
Immediately notified as soon as the sack
was discovered.
Young VytIdy's SE0the~ Talks.
The boys parents visited with him at
the United States commissioners rooms
yesterday. He talked with them, but
said nothing very definite about the af-
fair They told him that they had de-
manded that he have a hearing before
Judge nson and that he would probably
be sent to the reform school. He did not
seem to care for that part of the pro
ceedings.
His mother, Mrs. Wildly, talked to a
reporter for the Eagle, regarding the
boy. She said: eve have taken steps to
have Guy sent to the reform school We
demanded that once before, but be was
paroled by the judge Of the probate
court For long time he was not away
from home or into mischief. The day
that the robbery occurred at the Santa
Fe station he had asked to go to the
Auditorium that night. had refused to
let him go, and he went TO school that
afternoon. He did not come back for
his supper, and I supposed that he had
gone to the Auditorium that night We
live in the Rushing block. and we waited
for him a long time. but he did not
come. In the morning I started out to
find him but could not. and then I went
to the chief Of police and told my trou-
BILE. I asked Chief Cubbon to find him
and 7 told him that we would immediate
~ have him taken before Judge Wilson
to send him to the reform school. I went
around town looking for him after be-
ing at the police station, and on the way
home one Of the officers told me that the
hoy had been arrested. Then it was that
I found out what the charge was.
Once started for Springfield.
zone Of the men told me that ne had
stayed at the Rock Island station that
night and had not been out but a shor-
time.
1--WE lived IN Springfield before we
came here, and Guy was one of the best
boys that any mother could have. After
he came here with US he got into
crowd of bad boys and I think that this
had something TO do with his getting
into trouble. We never let him go out
at night to amount TO anything. but he
went around during the daytime, almost
any place that he wanted to. one time,
several months ago, Guy decided that ne
wanted to go to Springfield, where we
formerly lived. He started out and got
as far as Neodesha, when we found out
where he was and we had him brought
back and I do not think that he has
tried 70 run off since that time. We.
think that the best thing for Guy is TO
have him IN the reform school. He viii
get worse We are afraid. If something
is not done with him. and and my hus-
band have the opinion thai we had better
have the probate judge send him to the
reform school
The government officials VIII decide
Within a short tine whether or not they
VIII prosecute the boy. but the impres-
sion seems to be among those acquainted
with the case that they VIII not do any
thing about The matter owing TO the fact
thai be Will be sent 70 the reform school
The boy IS only "A years or age and s.
small for that number OF years. lie ap-
pears to be q bright lad and one would
hardly Connect him with a robbery as be
stood IN the commissioner Office yeeter-
day.
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