Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-30
BOY TK|EF'S CASE HA[TS
MENTAL RESPONSIBILITY NOT
YET DETERMINED.
Purloined $3.50 From Cash Drawers
of Washington Merchants.
Had No Accomplish.

Disposition of the case OF hiram
Wright the boy charged with the lar
ceny Of sums OF money from business
houses, expected this afternoon in the
Juvenile Court, was postponed until to-
morrow. The court held the case in
allegiance late yesterday. pending exami-
nation of the Wright boy by a physician.
Report was made to the court this aft
ernoon that the examination had not been
made. The postponement until tomorrow
was thereupon ordered.
$3.50 Stolen by Boy.
At the preliminary examination of
Wright by fudge De Lacy in tie Juvenile
Court yesterday afternoon it was brought
out that the boy had stolen nearly $3.50.
This he took from the cash drawers o.
various business houses. 1921 from the
Office Of Fl. l.. Strang, at 9l6 Louisiana
avenue; $s5 from J. Sondheim. at 500 7th
street southwest. and ST from W. S.
Anderson. at 9O1 street
OF this amount the detectives have re-
covered all but $119. Forty two dollars
was turned over to them by the boy s
mother.
Wright said he had given his money
to his mother in dribletS, telling her
he had obtained it by selling cigarette
coupons Inc OCy IOlC MS Story COM
posedly. though he flushed scarlet and the
tears came to his eyes at the judges per
tinent questions.
His father was in court with him. a
man between forty five and fifty year,.
of age. an electrical worker. He was
HiSibly more effected than little Hiram,
and at times sobbed aloud in the court :
room.
Mrs. Wright, the boys mother, was il
and unable to be in court. Judge De-
Lacy asked why she had not been sus-
picious when the boy gave her money,
since she knew that he was not employed
regularly. But both the boy and his
father explained that she thought he had
obtained the money by selling tobacco
coupons.
Boys Mode Of Procedure.
Hiran1's method was to go to IA snop,
tell the man in charge he was there to
and when lie found an opportunity. to tap
the till containing the cash.
How clever he was at this game was
apparent from the manner in which he
stole S23l from II. l.. Strang's office.
The man in charge of the Office. which
is not more than fourteen feet long. was
in the Office the entire time the boy was
there. and is still unable to say just when
or how the boy got to the cash drawer.
In this case Hiram sa that he was
waiting for a Mr.. Mitchell, who he said
was his father. who was coming to get IA
box of fruit from Strahgs store. He
waited for an hour. When no Mr.. Mitch
ell turned up, Hiram said he GUESSED h.
would GO He went without having
created suspicion that he had robbed the
place.
Judge De Lacy asked Mr.. Wright if
Hiram had ever had serious illness
which might have affected his mind. The
father said that Hiram had once had
typhoid-pneun1onia and that he had had
a fall, injur!ng his head. He pointed to
the scar on the top of the boys head.
The court tried to discover whether the
boy had had an accomplicc or had been
instructed how to steal Inva rial BILE de-
NAL was given by Hiram. Mr.. Wright
also declared that, so far as he knew, the
boy had had no accomplice.
In view OF the illness when the boy
suffered and his fall, Judge De Lacy took
steps to have him examined at the Emer-
gency Hospital by DR.. Dufour.