The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-03-30
ON The CARPET.
Young Men Called into Justice
Balls Court for Offensive
Conduct on the Streets.

About o. clock last evening, Chief of
Police McGovern hailed three Young
men into Justice Balls court charged
with offensive conduct toward young
women on the street. Other arrests
will follow The young men are aged
about seventeen or eighteen years and
as matter of courtesy and respect for
their parents whom we know to be re-
spectacle people, we withhold their
names for the time being.
For several months past complaint
has been more or less current of the IN
gentlemanly conduct of certain young
men of the city who have been engaged
in the di-Teputable pastime of jostling
young women on the streets and other
wise acting in an unbecoming and often
| sive manner. The Daily Leader has
refrained from referring to unseemly
matters of this kind regarding it az
| disgrace to the city to have it publicly
known that our own boys, living with
their parents in the city and attending
the schools provided for them at public
expense would permit themselves to en-
gage in hoodlumism of this character.
But matters have been going from bad
to worse until teachers of the city who
have charge of young lady students have
been compelled to appeal to Mayor
Schmidt for the punishment of the mis-
creants Chief McGovern has time out
of number in the evening ordered these
young men to their homes only to learn
To- Of thnup ~ al pIanlG
where young women pass returning to
their homes or boarding places remote
from the business streets and conduct
ing themselves in an offensive manner
The particular case in hand is the
result of unusual boldness. Last Sun
day evening several young ladies re
turning home from church were APP
preached by several overgrown hood
lums in upper Egan avenue who insist
ed upon walking with them, taking
hold OF their arms and other offensive
conduct which thoroughly frightened
and insulted the young women and they
reported the affair to their teachers.
The young men were recognized and
their arrest followed. In police court
last evening two of the young men
thought it all a very huge joke and
their shameless tittering aroused Chief
McGovern anger to the point where
he indicated desire to take them to
the woodshed and administer the sound
thrashing they deserved. The third
under arrest was humiliated and denied
completely in the outrage. But the two
first referred to were brazenly tough,
and in their lack OF appreciation Of
what constitutes good manners were in
clined to question City Attorney Por
ter 5 definition of what constitutes an
insult to lady as contained in his com
plant drawn at the suggestion of Chief
McGovern.
The hearing of the case was adjourn
ed until next Monday morning at 8
O'Clock
Our own Madison boys who make their
homes with their parents ought to have
sufficient pride in their own good names
and the good name of their home city
to conduct themselves like gentlemen
on all occasions. A tramp in the city
who would in any manner modest lady
on the street would be run out instantly
and might consider himself lucky to es-
cape with his neck intact, and still our
own town boys nightly engage in con
duct that in another city than their
home would subject them to treatment
which would be meted out to an often
sive tramp.