Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-14

and helped to deliver a certain wagon
load of trunks on a certain afternoon.
One of the valises burst open, and the
owner, upon receiving it, found the
bunch of pins missing. Then the boy
was questioned. Where was he living
when this incident occurred? Nowhere
Had he no home? No. Why not? He
had no father. His mother went int.
the country and left him boarding. He
was working for IS week, but he lost
his job and couldn't pay his board,
and they turned him out. Then he
there just one day when he was ar
rested.
How did he come to have the pins?
He found them under "A trunk, after
the satchel had been repacked and de-
livered. Why did he not tell his EN-.
ployer? No answer.
Then came Kate and James and
Martha and John Hanson; three tod
dlers, and one in its mothers arms.
And of the three toddlers not one
reached up to the edge of the judges
desk.
Where are they?" asked the judge,
and they were lifted up to be shown to
him. The smallest fodder had on new
yellow shoes; and ever and anon she
lifted her little petttcoats and looked
blissfully down upon them. Could
there be tragedy in a world that held
such shoes as those?
The babies were not criminals; only
deserted. Three toddlers and one in
arms, and the father gone; and the
mother must give them over to the
tender mercies of an asylum, to be
brought UP machine made children!
Their Crap Shooting."
There was the usual crop of boys
arrested for the heinous crime OF
Shooting craps" upon the street.
II made a grab for several, and
caught this one" confessed the officer
naively, telling how he caught one such
hardened criminal in the very act.
Then came round faced little char.
who had been arrested for vagrancy.
1t seems that he had been arrested
twice before on the same charge, and
the court almost instantly committed
him to an institution.
A sobbing shrek rang out.
"Oh. don't send him away! OH don't!
VII, lily AlllS OEOtIleT, isly HUE OTOlNs
err"
The boys mother Is dead, and thii
was his sister, a young woman. He
turned to look at her. and in the ex-
preston OF his face one could read his
whole character; careless, needless.
weak of will, but loving. The father
pulled the girl, still sobbing away to-
ward the door, and the boys eyes fol-
lowed them as they went
Then Came the Girls.
Toward the end of the session came
girls, five of them in all. Three of these
had done nothing worse than sell news
papers. Neither they nor their moth
ers knew that girls are not allowed to
peddle after dark. unless accompanied
by some older person. The interpreter
explained the matter to one old mother,
whose wrinkled face peered out from
beneath little black shawl, in great
anxiety.
"Niemuhls niemuhls." she kept say.
ing over and over--the, Yiddish word
for never" as 1t was explained to her
that she must never do it again. Then
there were two girls. one Of them lit
tie 7-year-old, whom the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
wanted to have committed to an insti-
tuition. Their mother kept disorder
ly house, and was deliberately bring
ing them up in it. Mamie Morris came
next. long, slim, fair girl of IL, who
was charged with stealing four or five
dollar bills from a cash drawer.
I'm that girls uncle" said a man,
off az a fn NJ, nf{4c
don't see her father or mother here
No, they seem to have deserted her.
replied the officer.
1t was said that Nantes father told
her to take the bills. and, the case went
over to wait investigation.
And last of all things In childrens
court was a case of attempted suicide.
Yes, Annie Stein, who tried to kill her
self, is under sixteen. Her case went
over for investigation. too, and Annie
took her graceful figure and her sad
little face out of court.
Mr.. Davis. president of the Society
for Prevention Of Cruelty to Children,
who was present, anticipates much
good from the new environment.
The whole atmosphere will be diff
ferent from that of the ordinary court"
he said. 1.-THE children will not be as
sociated with hardened criminals, or
with an audience ready to
laugh at their precocity or smart
ness"
Forty Years Torture.
To be relieved from disease might
we'll cal1se gratitude That is what De-