The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-10
Chicago Couldn't Be Saved BY
Lads From the Farms.
Churches Should Make a Cam
paign Against Vice.
Nefarious Doctors Well Scored
BY the Stern Judges.

|, Chicago, Jan. Judge Newcomer,
Iof the Harrison street municipal court,
asserted in lecture before 500 Young
men in the Y. NJ. c. A. auditorium,
1913 Lasalle street, that the theory,
"The new blood from the country can
save Chicago" is delMsion. He said
the "boys from the country 60 wrong
quicker in Chicago than those raised
in the city,"
Don't labor under the impression
that the country bloke can save Chi
cago," he said, ''and don't think the
bulk of the criminals come from the
city's slums. The young men from the
country 90 to the bad quicker than
the boys brought up in the city-and
girls, too.
81 was asked some time ago if
many Evelyn Thaw cases come to
light in the criminal courts of Chicago
1 answered that I knew of dozen
such cases that have come before me
in court. | made that remark once
in public, and when L left the plat
form a man came to me; he had re-
volver in his hand. He said he had
come from little town down the
state to shoot the betrayer of his
daughter, and asked me if it would be
murder.
Following the publication of a case
of that nature, | received several let
ters from as many fathers, requesting
me to help find their daughters, who
had come to Chicago and never had
been heard from since.
81 made the remark in church on
West Monroe street, not long ago,
that it isn't the boys from the smms
who make criminals altogether, but
boys from the churches, and from
Christian families as well. The preach
err asked me if there were any boys
from that church that had ever been
before me at Harrison street, and
replied that five or six lads, from
within half block from that church,
had gone the route at Harrison
street."
Judge Newcomer told of an incident
that happened not long ago, of
Rockford boy, who was sent to the
penitentiary, under the assumed name
of Roy Aldrich.
"Just before that boy left the court
room he spoke to me and asked me
if didn't know him. He then re-
vealed his real name, and / found that
I had sentenced the son of good
friend of mine-the only son of
Rockford business man. | asked him
how he could have gone so far. oh,
it came NATURAL he answered.
started out to have a good time.
forgot the Christian bringing up. Then
L lost morality and everything else
s'We all acknowledge that when
man fails to develop morally as he
does mentally and physically, he
becomes criminal.
Judge Newcomer said Chicago ought
to "kill or banish' lot of so-called
doctors who prey on young men.
''They are getting rich and are liter
ally destroying boys by the hundreds
through their descriptions which they
set forth in their display advertise
ments." NNNH
I'd counterfeit the work of nefarious
doctors, he advocated that in the pub.
lie schools or elsewhere boys should
be given certain amount of medical
training. He advocated@a more active
campaign against vice on the part OF
the churches and organizations.
No young man is safe in this or
any other city," concluded the judge
'sif he sets up one moral code Tor
himself and another for his sister"