Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
PRISONERS BEING TURNED OVER
TO CARE OF PAROLE soARD
RATHER THAN JUDGES.
BOARD HAS MACHINERY
TO LOOK AFTER THEM
Two Agents Devote Entire Time TO
Looking After Tiekst-of-Lsave Men
I George Wilson First State candi-
date to Apply For Nomination Pa
( PEREZ Drainage Delegates Named.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
81 Des Moines. Jan. 17.-Many of the
Judges of the state are following the
practice of paroling prisoners who are
first offenders to the state board of pa
role rather than to individuals under
the law which gives them the option ct
parole instead of sentence to the
reformatory for young men. 1t has been
found that the state has the organiza
ton to look after these young fellows
who have been led astray to better ad :.
vantage than can any private party.
The board Of parole keeps two pa
role agents whose principal duty is to
visit the paroled men, help them find
employment assist them II any trouble
arises between themselves and their
employers and counsel with them at all
times. The agents are constantly in
touch with employers Of labor who are
willing to give q man who has made
one misstep another chance.
Saturday a young boy from Indianola
was before the board. brought there by
Judge Apologize before whom he and
two other boys were tried for larceny.
The boys were riding In an automo-
bile which broke down and they were
convicted Of stealing parts and sup
plies from another automobile to re-
coup their own. Hugh Best, who was
before the board, is only II and tho
Judge decided to ask the board to pa
role him and look after his parole. The
two other young fellows, Floyd Sim
mons and Waiter Smith, were sent t.
the reformatory.
The state board Of parole has recent
-ly issued booklet giving the rules of
the board and containing an index OF
the crimes of the state which are
felonies. 1t Is small neat booklet and
will be especially priced by attorneys
who are anxious to have a handy ref
erence Of the felonies prescribed by
the Iowa laws.
First Nomination Papers.
George Wilson, county attorney of
Polk county and son of James H. Will
son. Of the state railroad commission,
is the first aspirant for the attorney
generalship Of Iowa 10 apply to the
secretary OF state for nomination pa
pers. He put in his application Satur-
day.
There are Q number Of aspirants out
for attorney general. John Fletcher,
assistant attorney general, already has
an organization perfected in some
parts Of the state. Henry Sampson,
also assistant attorney general will
be a candidate altho he has not yet is-
iued his formal announcement. Horace
Havner. Of MarengA was announced
inSAome of the Iowa papers recently
and Senator c. w. Whitmore is also
Cnt m he <SNv, Ct1 n~fv : I,
race s5s
Drainage Congress Dsles atss.
Governor Clarke has appointed the
following delegates to attend the ma
tional drainage congress to be held at
Cairo. ILL.,, Jan. 19 to q: J.. w. Jar
nagin. Des Moines; H. NJ. Sparboe,
Webster City; Ed L. Roth. Ottumwa:
Hon. Fred w. Jones. Spirit Lake: Hon.
J. II. Anderson, Thompson; Hon. John
T. Darrah, Hampton; Hon. 8. B. Du-
rant Forest City: Hon. G. L. Cassweli.
Denison: Hon.. L. s.. Enger. DEBORAH;
Hon. Guy NJ. Gillette. Cherokee.
Railroad Case Reversed.
In an opinion handed down Satur-
day the supreme court reversed tho
ruling Of the Buchanan county district
court In the case Of Hannah Kenyon
against the Illinois Central Railroad
Company. and remanded it for a new
trial. Caleb Kenyon, husband of Han
nah Kenyon. was killed at Nashua in
June 1914, when tho penstock of a
water tank he was trying to push back
from the engine suddenly gave way
and he was hurled to the pavement
The lower court did not award dam.
ages, but the higher court, after re-
viewing the evidence. declares that the
railroad company had been notified
that the penstock was out of order
and had failed to repair it and that the
company was therefore responsible.