Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-26
NJ CALL IS PET
OF COUNTY JAIL
THEATER TREASURER MAKES
FRIENDS READILY
As a Trusty Prisoners and Officials
Like Him, and He VIII Fight
His Way Back Into Good
Standing

To be banded about by a cold and
unfeeling world, to suffer hardship and
abuse in his fight to make a living for
himself and his bride, and then to
finally fall and be arrested and sent
to the county Jail, only to find himself
TIC pet and pride of that institution.
such is the experience of little Bobbie
McC all, former treasurer of the Grand
opera house, who is now serving a
three months sentence in the county
jail on an embezzlement charge.
Robert s. Mccall has had an un-
usually hard time in his few years of
life The lad has seen scarcely a score
of summers, yet the experiences of a
man have crowded upon him so fast
that his mind fairly swan in his at
tempt to keep up.
He was finally employed as assistant
treasurer at the Grand opera house
and was doing remarkably well there
so FAR as work was concerned, when
his fall and subsequent punishment
came upon him.
A short time ago he married and the
household demands became too great
for his meager salary, and in en- hour
of need he purloined about $100 from
the company.
He was arrested and felony embez-
element charge was placed against him.
But about that time the people of the
hurd, old world who had treated him
so cruelty began to take an interest
in him.
Before he was taken to court for
trial interests began to work in his
Behalf and he was allowed to plead
guilty to a misdemeanor embezzlement
charge. Unde those circumstances
Robert Mccall is simply guilty of mis-
demeanor and can return to his posi-
tion in the society of the world with a.
clean record, for thousands of misde-
meanors are committed every day by
prominent men of the country and no
disgrace is ever attached to them.
So Mccall was spared the blight Of
being called felon and was saved in
the nick of time from ruin and destruc-
ton bound to follow on a felony trlsl.
When Mccall entered the doors of the
county jail the world looked blue to
the young man who had always spent
his life in the open air.
Made Trusty
The boy, for such he is, is not over
five feet tall and has a mass of curly
golden hair. His big, appealing blue
eyes won him instant favor with the
captain of the jail. and when the first
night came for Bobbie to be the guest
Of the county he was not sent to the
committed prisoners.
The odor of perspiring Chinese pris-
oners awaiting deportation and of
negroes Is not pleasant in the
lower tanks, and Mccall began to
wonder at his fortune when he was
taken to the upper tiers of cells, where
the ventilation is good and the cells
larger.
1t was but the first of a score of
kindnesses to be shown the youth.
To an occasional visitor at the county
jail Mccall looks more like an officer
of a Jail than like trusty. He wears
his neat suit of street clothes and sits
in the first corridor watching the cells.
He is trusty and one of the best ever
sheltered within the walls of the county
Jail.
According to the statements of the
prison officials, Mccall is positively
adored by the other prisoners, who Will
tell their troubles to him and receive
instant sympathy.
He is on duty all during the day, and
is petted by all the officers who have
occasion to visit the bastile.
So the youths enforced imprisonment
has been made unusually light for him
and his sentence will soon be served.
Mccall is preparing for future of
hard work
Many Of his friends have offered him
employment as soon as he is released.