The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-12
BOY CRIMINALS PUZZLE TO
 JURISTS
One Magistrate Sends :: 16-Year-Old Youth to Prison 30 to 39 Years.
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1By Internat.O----. Jews Servtce) sdone with the boy crimina1-the Syouth who seems too young to be put sbehInd prison bars, yet astMmtiy is Fla menace to the community?'' = Judge Burt J. Humphreys of the SQueens County Court, has answered Ethe question in the only manner that frseems feasible to him-he has sent fa 16 year old boy to prison for term Epf not less than 30 nor more than 39 Eyeara Albert Kruger. alias Albert Robinson, the "convict.'' is guilty of ExoPbery. assault and grand larceny. Eenorn1ity of the boys crimes on sen
 fencins him. declared;
 -Essss3. Judge Shocked.
 ssrt tsYou are a very young boy, so kyoung that 1t shocks me to think 5Ehat a boy of your age could com Emit crimes so brutal in their nature. R1fve a. decent life. yet you have always lshown that you preferred a life of crime.
 .I find there are some people to Saa lifetime. while there are others who E1ever should have their liberty. and EI think you are one of those. { NO house Is safe with you at EAarge. and people in Jamaica were fectua11y afraid to remain alone in : their homes, fearing that you might
 am afraid you will never change. i thes2ore I must send you away for ~Hhe' protection of the public''
 Efforts were made to prove that datfons were marked not only by shrewd criminal talent. but by acts Lof fiendish cruelty The law decided Dangerous Type. Asked to comment on the Kruger Hcase, Justice Franklin c. Hoyt, who Ehas studied many similar cases while | sAoresiding over the Children's Court, | fdeclared that this particular type of | ,sScriminality is most dangerous of all, 1 f1because. being high grade detectives, | they often escape interception which | .as sure to apprehend those of lesser fantel1igence.
 "It is easy enough to take care of | idiots and imbeciles cases solve fbegan.
 "The higher grade -defectives are not recognized at first glance, and 3Set they are always the ones liable #o commit the most serious crimes at the slightest suggestion.
 5 ''The insane can be recognized and -dealt with as the idiots and imbeciles
 It Is these borderland cases that are the most dangerous.
 We need smaller homes and small der schools in which to study these more difficult types, the higher grade detectives"
 Tn answer to the expected sym pathy so generally called forth by the spectacle of a boy in prison. Jus 1ice Hoyt makes answer:
 Menace Community.
 t"The community is not safe with such a boy at large.
 Until some change is effected in his moral balance it is likewise un- safe to return him to the community.
 -'This type, which we meet OCca- sionally, is the moral imbecile, sane and abnormally intelligent rather than deficient mentally. But he has no sense of moral values or any inhi- bitions to restrain him.
 With many cases We know i'm mediate1y that We are dealing with ! detectives. With insanity it is diff ferent, too; that is, comparatively ! easy to establish. The insane can be cared for, and the subnorma1 can be trained.
 Long sentences are necessary in z some of the custodian cases On che other hand. a number of the higher grade types, after training, can return as self-supporting mem ' ibers of the community
 Most of us feel sorry that a 16- must go to Jail for any req , son at all, but what else is there to : do? We can scarely wait till these Jawless youngsters add more notches , to their weapons by increasing their ( numbers of prey. =