Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-10
JAILED YOUTH IS BAD ACTOR
DiEturbs Fellow Prisoner and Incidentally
the ~NsighbOrhsOd.
SENDS ORDERS TO THE CRIMINAL JUDGE
Demands that His Trial on barge of
burglary BE Conducted AZ Once
His Young Attorney
Feels Uneasy.

A youth held for trial on a charge OF
burglary is giving the custodians Of the
county Jail more strenuous days and sleep
less nights than all the rest Of the prison
era within the walls. He is distinctly and
emlnently a tough Kid" and he can think
Of more different kinds OF deviltry than a
college club.
When he was first brought to the Jail the
wardens, out Of regard for his rather ten
der years. put him in one Of the more
comfortable apartments in the matron's
wing. Promptly he scrubbed the floor with
the bed linen and fought five fast rounds
with a peaoeably-inclined colored boy In
the same apartment. He was threshed in
every round, but was still coming for more
when the jailer got through the door and
collared him.
The Dislike HIS Manners.
Then he was taken to the main court Of
the Jail. where the prisoners lounge and
eat their meals. Within five minutes he
had perched himself on the table and was
decorating the adjacent walls with Juice
Of the weed, though cuspidors we're con-
veniently near. Older prisoners who have
come to take an interest in the cleanliness
of the quarter threatened to break his "in-
fernal little back" and he was hurried off
to the colored prisoners wing. There he
did we'll for an hour or two and then be-
gan TO make odious remarks about the
complexion Of his cell mates, angerins
them TO the point Of starting a general
row.
In desperation, the jailer took him up
stairs to the solitary cell in which con-
victed murderers are confined and which
is such a lonesome, gloomy place that II
usually takes the meanness out Of the most
hardened Of offenders.
startIes People ON the streets.
Ten minutes later he began screaming al
the top Of his shrill voice; Don't muir
der me with thatl" and Keep that knife
behind you'll" Passersby ran in alarm to
the Jail ONCE to inform the custodians
The custodians were already informed by
their own ears and had sought to quiet the
young mustang. He only laughed while
they we're with him and would begin again
when they were gone. Waking in the
night he would stamp on the steel nooT
and yell until he had awakened all the
prisoners in the apartments underneath
and received from each a fervent blessing
in terms not intended for publication.
II now has CONF to a pass where he re.
quires practically the whole time OF {
deputy to keep him subdued and the law.
yer whom Judge Baxter, pursuant to his
plan Of giving young practitioners an ever
share Of the assignments to defend. ap'
pointed as the boys counsel Is wondering
how be will rnanaSs his ohaFss IL court
Gives the Court His Orders.
The youngster yesterday morning shove,
an inclination to boss the lawyer and toll
him to tell the judge he (the prisoner
wants his trial pulled of either Friday o
Saturday and won't stand for any lon
waiting"
Another young lawyer has been given tn
task OF defending a prisoner who is said L
have served twenty-five years OF his If
In jails or prisons. When the appointment
was made the prisoner calmly looked hi
counsel over and then remarked to tn
Judge: "scuse me. youah honah. but l lik
to have my trial put OF till l ken con
sidah this mattah. l don't know but wha
] Jess as soon take a chanct on pleadir
guilty