The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-14
JudgeMcEvoyE Explains
 Probation Privileges
Suspended Sentence Means Another Opportunity to
 Start New Life-Crime Not Forgiven, Nor Erased

Emphasizing that the trust which superior court has reposed in them by granting them probationary terms from six months to year or various criminal charges and the aftermath if violation of that trust occurs, Judge Frank P McEvoy told II men that by being placed on probation does not mean that the offenses they have committed have been forgiven and obliterated.
 Sound Advice Given
 The superior court magistrate imposed the sentences at criminal session Tuesday morning and after noon in common pleas court where superior court was held due to the conspiracy trial in the courtroom overhead. Previous to court ad- journment Judge McEvoy asked the Il men placed on probation to stand in line in front of him and aside of Clerk John s Monagan so that he could give them bit of sound advice and correct the er- roneous impression most men under similar court orders have of pro- bation. .~.
 Judge McEvoy said:
 Sometimes people figure that when a person is placed on pro- bation that the offenSe with which the accused was charged is forgiven and cbliterated. Of course that is not so at all. The purpose of probation is to give those who are charged with any sort of criminal offense an op- portunity to go out into the com- munity and to lead a decent life and an industrious life and. not withstanding the ignominy which comes and arises from the of- fense committed. to attempt to live that down and to show, by the conduct of the probationer, that the probationer is proper person to be entitled to consider ation by the Court and the com- munity.
 Each one of you will under stand that you are now required -immediately-to report to Will lam M. Harris, the official proba- tioner officer of this court. :,
 Upon your reporting to him and at his convenience he will tell each of you when to report to him and where to report to him. In addition to that it is his func- ton and his duty to keep close ly ill touch with you; to endeavor at all times to supervise your con- duct and to keep himself in- formed as to whether or not you are complying with the orders which he gives to you.
 His authority, under the cir cumstances, is very broad and comprehensive authority.
 Merely A Suspension
 If he tells you to do anything, you are to do it. You are not to question him at all, That is his duty. If MT. Harris at any time feels that any one of you is doing anything which would be bad for you--and, of course, incidentally bad for the community-it would be MT. Harris duty to make that situation known to the Court because, you should definitely dn- derStand that although the Sen- tence in each case is suspended for one year, that is merely suspension-and that upon the representation by MT. Harris to the Court at any time that the conduct of any probationer is not just what it ought to be. of course the Court will then, immediately, consider the revocation of that suspension, ,-and if the suspension were revoked it would mean that the proba tioner would be. imme- diately taken by MT. Harris with out. any warrant, No warrant would be necessary on the part of MT. Harris or any other 0f-