The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-31
JUVENILE COURT
SAVES DISTRICT
SUN OF $4,000
Judge Guptill Issues Sum-
mary of Work For Two
Years
INVESTIGATED
LOOP CASES
Total Cost of Juvenile Court
For Two Years $313.O1
a Month

Taxpayers OF the Third judicial dis.
trict effected by the Juvenile court
method Of dealing with matters involv.
ing the delinquency of persons under
the age of Is years, as compared with
the cost Of hearings regularly held in
| the district, was for the last two years
ending May 81, 1917, $16,252.67 or more
than twice the cost of the maintenance
according to the summary for the two
years issued today by Juvenile Court
Commissioner A. b. Guptill. The total
cost of maintaining the Juvenile court
for the district during the twenty-four
months was S7,712.31 or $313.01 pei
month. . ....- .. =.
1902 Investigated.
The report shows that for the two
years the court personally investigated
! 1,002. These Investigations involved
charges Of delinquency, neglect or de-
tendency of TAG boys and 25S girls
under the age of Is years. The report
Of Judge Guptill follows:
investigations personally made by
the commissioner, 1902. These investi-
cations involved charges of delin-
quency, neglect or dependency of TAG
boys and 256 girls, under the age of
IL years. i
247 Court Hearings.
Growing out Of these 1902 investi-
cations, there resulted Eat formal court
hearings; q children were provided
With homes by decree of adoption; 43
Werep laced for temporary care in ap-
proved family homes; 36 were commit
ted for temporary care or detention to
locate institutional homes; IL were
placed under individual guardianship,
chiefly for observation pending the
taking of legal steps in adoption pro-
ceedings;' 10 were committed for care
and training to the state training
school, at Mandan; 156 were paroled by
the court under a report system, and
l75 were specially adn1onished and
placed under friendly observation for
varying periods. Seventy nine of these
last named are still under observation,
at the date of this report, and seven
boys and two girls still under parol,
Note-In the hearing and disposition
OF matters involving the dependency of
children, effort has been made to avoid
invading the Jurisdiction of county
commissioners designated by law to be
overseers Of the poor.
For the information of those not en-
tirely familiar with state wardship of
children under the Juvenile Court law
of North Dakota, is should be said that
there are in this judicial district three
institutional homes quite generally
known throughout the state for the ex-
cellence and practical philanthropy of
their work, of whose facilities for the
care of wards the Juvenile court has
frequent opportunity to avail ITSELF
These are: The North Dakota. Chill.
dren's Home, made use of by the court
as a temporary asylum for small chill
dren, plans for whose legal adoption are
being worked out, or who require to be
kept under observation for a time until
final disposition OF their cases can be
reached. The Florence Crittenton
Home, whose management kindly per-
mits- its use as a detention home for
girls whose cases await disposition and
which also is available as a temporary
home for girls deemed to require the
special care. protection and discipline
which it affords. Saint Johns Orphan
age. the third of these local institu-
tons, is made use of by the court as a
temporary boarding home for boys and
girls above the age Of two years, whose
circumstances are found to, be such as
to make advantageous to them the sys-
tematic care and government Of this in
stitution. Besidess these institutional
homes thus open to its wards for tenn
porary domicile. the court In this dis
trict has access to three boarding
houses conducted under the annual IL
cense in which infants can be tenn
porary boarded until they can be taken
into the homes or families of their
mothers, or be legally transferred to
the Childrens Home with a view OF be-
ing placed for adoption.
I'm this connection 1t seems fitting to
say that the physicians, surgeons and
dentists of Fargo, have rendered dur
ing the period named, gratuitous SER
vices to the courts wards which il
charged for in the regular course of
practice would easily have totaled
$1,000. None of these services is in
cluded in the estimate OF savings above
referred to-"
ALBERT B. GUPTILL,
Juvenile Commissioner.
Dated Fargo, N, D., May 81, 1917.