Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — YOUTHFUL CULPRIT GIVEN A CHANCE [ARTICLE]

YOUTHFUL CULPRIT GIVEN A CHANCE

George Wolf, Aged 14, Acknowledged Small Thefts, and Judge Hanley LefcPHte Off With Premise. George Wolf, 14 years of age and small for his years, has been engaged in various small thefts for some time past and has been under the surveilance of Marshal Mustard. He showed a particular penchant for stealing reels from fishing poles and, several fishermen were losers. He disposed of some of these and would spend the money about town. Finally the marshal talked with him about it and he promised to recover a reel he had sold to another A day or two .later he bought, the reel back for $1 and returned it to the owner. He continued to spend considerable money and the marshal decided to talk with Father Daniels about it, the boy being a student in the parochial school. ITather Daniels said he was sure that the boy’s parents did not supply him with the money. They took the lad into a room at the school building and he soon coughed up the source of his money supply. He said that he visited the public school building while the high school boys were practicing football and rifled their pockets. Several of the boys had been missing money ever since school began and had been trying to catch the culprit Marshal Mustard turned Wolf over to Truant Officer Steward, who took him before Judge Hanley, where the lad made a clean breast of his thefts and promised to refralp from the practice in the future. It is probable that another escapade will result in his being sent to the reform school.