Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1912 — RICH BOY WONT STAY HOME [ARTICLE]

RICH BOY WONT STAY HOME

Threatens Suicide If Returned to Hla Parents —Juvenile Court Puzzled. Washington.—Twelve-year-old Aaron Bregman for three days has defied the juvenile court. Although his father la well to do, Aaron was. said to have persisted in going about in rags and was charged with trading on the credulity of the sympathetic theater crowds. « His father had punished him for staying out late, and when arrested for peddling without a license be refused to be paroled in the custody of hts parents, announcing that he would commit suicide before returning home. Two days in' the house of detention did not alter his attitude, and even when his mother fainted in court he would not weaken. Judge DeLacy, fearing that\tbe lad in a spirit of braggadocio, might attempt to Injury himself if ordered to accompany his parents, turned him over to the Children’s Guardians. They are now seeking a way out of the situation.