Putnam patriot., 1926-11-26
PROBLEM OF YOUTH
What to Do With Young Of. lenders Perplexes Trial
 Courts

W nat to Do With foung Of
 lenders Perplexes Trial
 Courts
 Two boys. one seventeen and the other eighteen years old. were before the city court Saturday morning. Jo- seph Cayer. IS, was charged with stealing the automobile of Max Levine Church street, several weeks ago Silvio Malleoux. IT. North Grosvenor- dale. was charged with stealing a bicy- ele from near the Putnam Foundry Both boys pleaded guilty.
 lt is such cases that are trying to a police court judge or even to the judge of court of higher jurisdiction. It would tax the wisdom of q solomon to do justice in such cases. Unfortunate ly there are no institutions. except penal institutions, where boys of this age may be sent. The age limit at the Connecticut School for Boys is sixteen years.
 4 boy who was with Cayer was be fore the court two weeks ago. He had no previous record and was placed ia charge of the probation officer Cayrr has a court record and has been eharg- ed with theft before.
 Joes Narrative
 Joe tried to foster the blame on the ether boy 1is story was interesting but not altogether credible. He sad that the other boy suggested taking Che truck and that # was the ether taF that backed 1t out of the garage
 Once on the broad highway Joe avs they went te take a girl out for a ride lt Was the other fellows girl. Thp night was dark Ii was rainy. The truck drew up in front of the girls home and the invitation to be- come a third member of the trucking party was extended, and refused
 Then, according Co Joe, they learned that the girls father was interested in buying q farm in Woodstock. SO they took him to the neighboriug town to look over his prospective purchase. tThe reader should keep in mind that II was night and rainy night at thatl
 Would Be Actors
 Arrived back in Putnam the truck sters decided to start for New York. They intended to get an engagement on the vaudeville stage Asked what experience they had had as vaude- vile team. Joe said that once he ap- peared at an amateur night at the Bradley and didn't get the hook Nor did he get the prize
 However. jde said, they started for New York on that rainy night and just after they loft Willimantic the truck went back an them. lt refused to climb a hIll They turned ahout and rolled down hill back toward Wilt mantle when thes encountered another hill Another ear came along and ran into the truck They abandoned if
 That they drave t0 Wilhmantie II the truck is true The truck was and about twd miles be} AZ WllimHn t.c stopped at house and sed to bs p5, up for Che night They put uut
 Visit New Ieraey
 Automebile and ether trucks wti kind-hearied drivers furnished then transportation to New York. The vaudeville house were all booked uf 70 they continued on 10 New Jersey Joe didn't know whether it was li0. boken. Weehawken. or Jersey City but it was New Jersey.
 lt was in the state that mosquitoes have so widely advertised that the vaudeville team broke up without do. ing any vaudevilling. The other boy came back to Putnam and was taken into court. Joe returned to Hartford where his mother now lives. eventual. ly When he arrived in the Capital City the Putnam police were notified and went there to escort Joe back to the starting point He is now in jail awaiting the next criminal term Gf the superior court.
 Menu Boiled Ham
 Silvio's case had a different aspect lie had not been before the court be. fore His tale was one to arouse a dc. gree Of sympathy. He said he worked in the big mil at North Grosyenor. dale One day he left before bell time and Waa fired When he told has father his father put him out of tho house He has since boarded himself He bought provisions of his own and slept in a barn, hanging about the hose house during the day Asked how he he did his cooking he said that his food consisted for the past six months Of cold boiled ham which he could purchase at q store.
 l. was disclosed that when first ap- prehended Silvio denied he had taken the bicycle, bat finally led the officers to place some two miles from North Grosvenordale. where the wheel was hidden under some brush.
 Silvio apparently has been living a HuckleberFy Finn existence since his father put him out. He has made a reputation of being light fingered. Could he be reformed if given proper environment and chaneeg This is the courts problem. The case was continued for further investigation and thought.