The age-herald., 1902-04-27
Boy Banished; Queer
 Punishment by Judge

Leonard Robinson, 14 years old, a resi- oent or Blue Point, l.. l., is now under going the strangest punishment for crime on record. Because he plotted to murder Jesse Danes he was banished from home, family, and friends for three years, and during this time he must live in an iso- lated hut overlooking the waters of Shin necock Bay far out on Long Island. Re- gently he broke away from his banish- ment and started to the home of his rel atives, but was captured and taken back To the hovel, where he must stay until the expiration of the time specified by the extraordinary ruling in his case.
 The unusual punishment meted out to this boy was not based upon law It was simply concession made by the father of the girl he plotted to kill when the boys father and mother begged that he would not push the case and send their son to reformatory or lunatic asylum, which would place a stigma upon him throughout life
 It was in reality compromise reached out Of court Judge W. S. Conklin of Patchouge consented to the remarka ble sentence, and specifically stipulated that the boy should not be seen in the vicinity of his home for three years. The court passed sentence on the boy with stern injunction that he obey.
 'I'll try to stand it." replied the youth with trembling lips. Tt seems purity hard to leave pa and ma that long, but I'll do whatever they agree to-
 So on the 3d of March, Leonard was packed off to Canoe Place, a fisher will lage close by the waters of the bay at the foot of the bleak, bare-topped Shinne- cock hills, beyond Goodground, L. I. The village Is thirty-five miles away from Blue Point where Leonard Robinson was reared in an attractive cottage in the heart of the town. Soon after the boy ar- rived at Canoe Place he gained permis- sion of S. c. Warner to sleep and eat in his house. In payment for this he agreed to work hard fishing and clamming and shooting ducks in the bay.
 The boy grew homesick. The Warmers were kind Q him and he stood his ban ishment well for a while. but one day
 during a particularly hard attack of homesickness he wrote to his mother ask ing if he could not leave Canoe Place and | meet her at the home of his married sis | ter in Sayville. This would necessitate | his passing through Patchouge and Blue Point on the train. He begged his moth | CT to meet him Patchouge and escort him | through these towns, promising that he | would not get off the train if she did so. Then 1t was that the mothers love pre- vailed. She could see no violation of the agreement with Jesse Danes father in this, so she consented to do as the boy re- quested. But it was a mistaken move
 Tho lawyer for Captain J. S. Danes heard that the boy was at large and again in the vicinity and served notice upon James Rob- ipson, the father, that if the lad was found in that region of Long Island he would be held up and the law applied most vigorously.
 When the father received notice that the boy must strictly obey the ietter or the punishment agreement he took his son back to the dreary little nut wnlch has been built for him close by the bay at Canoe Place. The fatner oetern'ineu that he would stay there, too' With the boy to prevent his leaving. mus IL came about that the Robinson home was prok- en up. Mr. Robinson left his family at Blue Point and took up life With his son. He homes to earn living clamming, hsh- ing. shooting ducks and acting as guide for pleasure seekers during the summer
 Altogether the case has proved the more extraordinary and the most puzzling proposition ever brought m in the courts of Long Island. It is not at all improbable that an anpeal will be made to Governor Odell for a moro satisfactory adjustment of the affair than that which has sent the lad far from the influences of home