Evening journal., 1919-10-09
BOffS GIVE PENNIES
To SAVE LINDSEY
IN Fight to Guard Sanctity
of Secrets Whispered TO
Kids Judge
CASE is UP TO
SUPREME COURT

NE. A. Special TO The Evening Journal
DENVER, Colo, Oct 9-Boys through
out the nation are uniting to say.
~Judge Lindsey shall not go to jail
They're fighting to establish this le-
gal precedent;
When a boy tells his secrets TO a
Juvenile court judge that confidence
shall not be betrayed.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States soon Will pass on The law. And
boys organizations, headed by The
Boys Brotherhood Republic in Chi
cago, are raising funds TO carry on the
legal light
This al dates back TO the Wright
murder trial In Denver.
Neal Wrghi's father drank and
abused his family.
Neal defended his mother, and the
father threatened TO come back and
"cean out the house"
He went for more whisky. He re-
turned and found the door locked. lie
banged on the door and demanded ad-
mittance.
Someone flred-and Wright fell dead
on his own doorstep.
Meals mother Historically screamed
that she had killed her husband. Later
she confessed 10 the prosecutor.
Then Neal came forward and said his
mother was trying to shield him.
II fired the shot," Neal insisted. 81
grabbed the gun from my mother. who
had threatened TO kill herself. 10 ex-
ploded"
Police laughed at the lad.
A minister brought him TO Juvenile
Judge Ben B. Lindsey. 'Talk TO the
lad,n he said.
Lindsey did so on the understanding,
which Neal shared that anything said
would go no further.
This has always been the rule in the |
Denver "kids' court-m0st famous iu- |
venile court in the country.
Neal repeated ON the witness stand |
In the trial of his mother the story he
had told the police
Then Judge Lindsey was called as q
witness.
The prosecution asked him to repeat
what the lad had told him in conf
dence.
Ladsey refused. He declined TO say l
whether the story was the same as the
boy told on the witness stand. He as
Dov practically a ward Of his COURT II
and the Juvenile judge were the same
as those between lawyer and client, II
doctor and patient, priest and penitent.
Judge John A. Perry found him
guilty Of contempt OF court without
a Jury trial. OF course) and sentenced
him TO pay $500 ilne. Lindsey an
nounced he wouldn't pay the fne-he'd II
hn a I'LL
The state Supreme Court
This cOurt by a vote OF four to three
upheld the lower courts sentence.
one Of the three Judges who voted /
AGAINST the sentence wrote a scathing
opinion IN which he asserted II would
have been highly opposed 10 public
policy. decenoy and Justice FOR Lindsey
10 have violated the Wright boys con-
hlence in court.
one Of the four who voted to uphold
The sentence was an open and avowed
enemy of Lindsey lie could have been
had he sat on a jury In any
case involving Lindsey, because OF his
on the Judge for his Beast and
Jungle stories exposing Colorados
political rotienness.
Lindsey asked for a rehearing' which
was denied.
He then appealed TO the L. s. Su-
prcme Court, before which the case
now rests.
Neal Wright-i2 when he says he
shot his father, and now i6-has made
a good record as a soldier in France.
lie enlisted in the army despite his
youth.
His mother Is happily remarked.
And the boys Of America, remember
ing Boyland's primal law Of "Thou
shalt not squeal,n are contributing pen
nes and nickles and quarters to a
fund that viii carry on the fight be-
fore The highest court in the land for
, Juvenile judges right TO respect the
confidence of a kid.
This fund is being collected by the
B0ys' Brotherhood Republic, 1929 Re
public Building Chicago.
Judge Lindsey repeats that II the
Supreme Court upholds the Denver
verdict he'll never pay the fns-he1l
so TO jail.
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