The Washington herald., 1913-08-30

vict except in aggravated cases.
Under the law, boys, under legal age,
when charged with such an offense, must
be tried in the Juvenile Court, the State
being represented as in other cases by
the prosecuting attorney. Finding il next
to impossible to get jury convictions in
most of these cases, Judge Lindsey began
a new system.
Judge Lindsey'S Plan.
In cases where the prosecuting attor-
ney announced that he would not hls the
case because of the hopelessness of get
ting a conviction, Judge Lindsey made a
practice of calling the boys attorney in,
Inducing him to have his client enter a
plea of guilty, and then suspending SEN
tence on the boy and placing him on pro-
baton until the next offense, when he
could be sentenced to the reformatory
without trial, under the old conviction.
TIE plan has proven most efficacious.
Whenever an arrest is made, some
charge must be registered on the police
blotter. Obviously, if the prisoner is
charged with rape, such a charge will
be placed opposite his name. Thus. in
the case of an arrest for rape. the police
blotter carries a record something like
this: Name, John Jones; charge, rape;
judge. Lindsey; disposition, discharged.
This is the record" the "Women's Pro-
tective League" has sent out in the cir
culars. The police blotter. which is re-
produced, shows that Tony Kinsella
was arrested for rape three times, was
twice discharged: was sentenced the third
time TO Buena Vista, and was discharged
from the reformatory four months after
his incarceration.
Celebrating on this, the circular de-
Clares that this man" has been three
times arrested for outrage against young
gIls has been twice discharged by Lind
sey. and on the third arrest was tried,
found guilty, and then given the lenient
sentence OF four months in the reforma-
tory.
Record of Roy's Case.
There are several misstatemSnts to be
nailed in so much OF the charge. In the
first place, Kinsella Us a boy Of nineteen
years; in the second place. no judge can
GIcharge a case, as the prosecuting at
tOrney only has this authority; in the
third place, the law does not permit a
definite sentence upon conviction. The
sentence is fixed by law at from one TO
forty years. Kinsella was sent up under
this indeterminate sentence and was dis
charged at the end of four months by the
board of reformatory supervIors, of
which the chairman is a woman.
This is what the court record. studi-
ously avoided by the League" shows in
kinSella's case:
The first tinyo he was brought in the
girl he was accused of having attacked
denied under oath the truth of the charge.
The prosecuting attorney promptly dis
missed the case. The second time Kin
sella was accused of violating the law in
the case of an Italian girl. who looked to
he twenty-four years old. but who claimed
to he only seventeen. She was the ac-
cuser. Tony denied the charge and de-
rlared the girl was jealous of him. Tony's
attorney successfully attacked the repu-
tation of the girl. showing her to be
thoroughly bad.
The prosecuting attorney moved to dis
miss the case. declaring that he could not
hope for a conviction. Lindsey demurred,
and told the boys attorney that unless
the boy pleaded guilty he would insist on
A prosecution. The boy pleaded guilty.
was placed on probation, and was warned
that at the next fall from grace he would