Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-01
SUTTON ON JUVENILE COURT
els Of Efforts Being Made to Prevent the
Rduoation II CrininAlE
CHILDREN TAKEN FROM BAO INFLUENCES
Declares Intention to Remove Every
ChtId from the RED Light
Distriot ana Its Vicious
IRauenees.

"a we'll attended and interesting open
Aeeting was given BY Alpha camp No. /.
Wl,odnen of the world. at Myrtle hall
Continental BLOCK. Tuesday evening The
sbeoial feature OF the evening was an al
dress upon the purposes, and workings of
the juvenile court Of Omaha by Judge A.
u. Sutton. He preceded his address upon
the Juvenile courts with short talk on
fraternalism and Its benefits especially as
applied to the woodmen Of the World. He
said; r.tst
The story Of the juysnne court is tn.
most beautiful IN the land. Seven years
ago there was no such. thing as a Juvenile
court, and now TWENTY-FIVE states have
these courts or juvenile laws IL is the
most important OF all our laws and its
incipiency as preventative Of crime This
law gives the juvenile court judge abso-
lutte control Of ehtdren under Is years
and who lack. parental restraint or whose
parents are Incapable or Indifferent to
their moral control, Six hundred boys and
before me since the FIRST OF the year. Most
Of these have been dismissed with a lee
ture and some wholesome advice and un-
der promise thst they would do better,
while some OF them have been sent to the
detention school, where they are surrounded
by every moral and good influence ard have
been benfited by their ten or twelve days
detention In the school. About fifty truants
have been brought before the court also
IN that time, and most Of them have been
persuaded to return to school, but where
they were ancorrieible have been sent TO
the detention school with good results.
Prevention of Crime.
Up 20 the time Of the establishment Of
county Douglas county has paid over
y2oOO0 for the punishment of crime,
but not oS = dollar had been spent o
sngsging in crime. Since the estab-
lishment of the juvenile court about $1,000
( children, with excellent results. Before
lthie children of tender years when arrested
nor misdemeanors were thrown into the
ctly ana county 1als among hardened GRIM
fnals and were thus nurtured to further
crime by their association with the very
the first OF the year I have had to send
various crimes. OF this. number. three
cuted November y unless pardoned by
the governor. One Of these is but a boy
Of a years and the other a young man Of
were under B years Of age. Early IN the
year group OF dozen children was
4 brought before me charged with being an
organized hand OF burSlars. The oldest
of them was but Y years of age and the
youngest and the leader Of the gang was
but years old. They stole from the de-
partment stores and had accumulated con
siderable plumber, which was later recov-
cred and returned to the stores from which
,-a,s H,ts...Ia.. ~ 49,
since returned 10 q rife of crime
Judge Sutton told OF number OF pitlfuI
cases where children had been abandoned
by their parents or were left to starve dur
ing the drunken earousal of their parents
Most OF these children have been provided
with other homes
Same p.r.,,..I oODo.,,,o,
- He told 90 tbe ortort a. ho,,n al, ob,1-
drsn rsroo,,oa frob, fsA rod I,sS,+ a,.,rtct
ana rs inr,5ancss IA % TIC ornns,tton
that he met fron, the nsrents ~ some
of tbe children who r,rsSs,red q, remain
tbere ..E,,t = con sss,,re vo,, mat ever,
cbiid shall no reyravsa from that district
vet" eSntinre.f. .tte fsirsi d IA "A ss,, nj
nartic,,iar VS. referted ~ where the mar.
ants detormipea ~ Invoke Ire law aRatnst
the juvenile 5&oort lfterferinr with their
,,ersopsi l,yigbts ana libsrtiss. rrnon in
ou,rv n NsS .aiseovered thai these narents
az ave cljldren we're keeninR a boarding
house and harding regularly some OF the
worat cbaraeters of Inc red light district
A case was also recitea where a boy was
unnercifnIIv nunisbed NV his father n he
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