The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-01-11
CIRCUIT COURT NOW IN SESSION
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Jas. B. Hedge.

mind TO since | talked to you boys thai
if your parents had talked to you Just
a little more seriously some time ago
it would have been better. And ii
there is any II of the parents Of any
this matter easy for you, or is trying
TO shield you, or is trying to make this
misdemeanor any less heinouS than il
is now they are doing you a grave in
justice, and they are helping you along
TO a more serious crime than you have
committed. And if, when you get
through with this matter, your parents
attempt to even up this matter, or TO
punish somebody for what you have
done, or to make it hard for public
officers TO perform their duty, they are
helping their best to make criminals
out of you,-and am going to say il,
publicly to you, and to your parents, if
your parents feel that way about it.
III lilt OtIltl Ddliu L am Sdllcntd TIA
you have parents, some of you, who
took the right view of this matter, and
who have told you to tell the truth
openly and take your punishment for
it, and these parents are your best
friends. | am also pretty well satisfied
that you were not very truthful when
you were first found out in this mat
ter; you tried TO dodge it.
Now | am not going to try to make
this easy for you. | am satisfied that
if let you off easy | will put a prem
ium on stealing automobiles for JOY
rides, and committing burglary in the
third degree by sixteen year old boys,
and we will have our jails and peni-
tentiari6s full in a very short time. /
am going to serve notice through you
and on you that the court is not going
to take these things as a joke. Steal
ing by school boys in B~rookings coun-
~ is not any more of a joke than it is
anywhere else. When you open a
door, if it is not locked, and go into
another mans garage and take his
property you have committed burglary
in the third degree, under the statutes
Of this state, and you are liable to be
punished by Imprisonment in the state
penitentiary for five years.
If you who have good homes, and
good fathers, and good mothers and
are doing these things in violation Of
the laws of the state what a We say
to those boys and girls who live in the
slums Of the cities and do not have
enough to eat, and have to steal or
starve.
| have made some little investigation
of the damages done to these cars. The
damage done to DR.. Forsee's car was
$4,000, to DR.. Fisk's car 1000, and |
have no very definite statement as to
the damage done to DR.. Green's car.
Now there is no way for boys to get
along in this world unless they get
along on the square. | am going to
this money that is going to be paid as
a condition, among other conditi MS,
out Of money that would come to you,
or see that you individually earn this
money and pay it back, so that you
will know what it will cost to run cars.
1t may be the judgment and SEN
tence of this court that each of you be
confined in the county Jail of Brook
ings county at hard labor for a period
of six months, and that you pay to the
county treasurer of Brookings county
all of the expenses of this prosecution:
that you pay DR.. Forsee $4,000, to DR..
Fiske SO, and to DR.. Green S., and
that you pay the damage to any other
car that you have used, and it will be
the further judgment and order of this
court that this jail sentence as to each
of you be suspended upon the follow
ing conditions: First, that you make
the payments in money to the county
treasurer and the parties herein set
forth, and take their receipts and file
them with the prosecuting attorney.
Second, that you keep all of the laws
Of the state of South Dakota. Third,
that you abstain from the use OF liquor
and tobacco in any form. Fourth. that
you do not under any circumstances
take anybody's car without first OBJ
tanning permission. Fifth, that you re.
port once each month as near the first
day of each month as practicable to
George Hall, the County Judge, at his
Office rs to whether you have KEPT
these conditions Of your parole and
that on default Of making this report.
or the violation of any one of these
conditions, he shall forthwith u
fou to be arrested by the sheriff of
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