New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-11
HIS DELINQUENTs.
How Judge Lindsay Finds Way to Bad
Boys Hearts.

Judge told desc kids that they sure TO
get caught by the cop policeman for swipin'
wheels and we's been tsikin Il over and just con-
cluded that the best thing 10 do was 70 come IN
here and sniteh up told de kids dey would get
q square deal
gang OF I'VE who had stolen thirteen bicycles.
Judge Judge Ben Z. Lindsay who. in The
Journal OF Education. writes OF his success I'm
forming Juvenile delinquents through his Juvenile
court in Denver. Judge Lindsay believes armly
in encouraging the boys. appealing 10 their sense
OF honor and establishing relations OF comrade-
ship and confidence between them. The nve bicycle
stealers who decided that the best thing TO do Was
to to the Judge and "snitch up did so for
the double reason that they were sure IN the long
run 10 get caught by the cop" and that in
Tossing to the judge they would be sure OF
square deal" In the latter part OF their con-
clusion they not mistaken although the
the countenances OF the four boys in the quintet
VINO had never seen the judge before was
I'VE were not long IN becoming fast friends. how
gave me a history OF their pilterings. which dis
closed that | had on my hands very serious
these boys as though / was one OF them. a com
PaniOn and a friend IA trouble; advising them the
all time Four Of those boys TO this day are vol
charged or tried for any offence. although they
had thirteen stolen bicycles 10 their dscredlt.
sood %sn at Reart but he thought the enjoys boys
should have been arrested and an effort made TO
return the wheels. This impEactcabe under
the circumstanoes ! told him l thought more OF
a greater duty 10 save the boys than the bicycles
The result OF that incident was 10 save many cit
liens property that would otherwise have been
one chief means of reaching the heart OF the
able talks which the Judge holds with the boys.
his table. III They are thoroughly alive he says
to the fact that 800 IL keep them out Of the In.
necessary that they must be square with me.
the whole Juvenile court business is liable 10 go
look here If keep you all out OF Golden (the town
where me Industrial School is located, and you
sayI Why. they win Just say. That fool 1s Judge
he wouIdr have swiPed anything. and made other
people lot OF trouble Now IL Is my custom 10
anybody swipes anything again am going to get
nts,. and the first thing you know. E0u win be
all up9 a little boys slang. judiciousy and wisely
fui effect. and does more to reach the boy heart
than you can well imagine. ] do not believe: II
TssS wh irons Soys mas Gs M
tell YOU am going to stay With you; all l want "a
don't stay with you. then think you, ought to
every probatoner committed imposes his own
sentence and some have gone to the Industrial
That under any ordinary circumstances the
Juvenile court Sssnx wtR fae
Judge Lindsay considers proved by statistics and
and more complete success depends upon the in
diyiduals 20 whom its execution is intfusted
GERS he concludes.
Upon the character, tact, skill and intelligence
of the Judge and his assistants. the probation off,
GERS, largely depends the success of the court
eouragement Of the child and attempt TO arouse
ali the nobler and better impulses and subdue and
Is not likely to be attained The law itself is Of
small importance compared with these elements
a public character in the community than that Of
probation officer. unless 1t be- the judge of the
hiyAnfle court"