Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — AUTO, SAYS JUDGE. [ARTICLE]

AUTO, SAYS JUDGE.

Indianapolis Jurist Warns Girls Against Haphazard Acquaintances With Auto Drivers. Jtldge Orbison, of Indianapolis, has given a warning to girls to be very careful about taking up w;ith men who ask them to go auto riding He indicated in his talk that there are a. lot of lecherous men who use automobiles for the purpost of luring girls into evil ways. No mother should permit her daughter to go automobile riding with ic yaimg man unless she is properly chapdroned and if your daughter is out at night it is your duty to learn where she has been and withhold her from any joyriding if you would preserve her for purity and innocence, was the tenor of the judge’s disburse. He has been called upon several times to listen to stories told in his court where the automobile and its driver have been the direct causes of delinquency. To the average poor girl an auto ride with a “nice” young man is a great temptation. The cause of the remarks by the judge was a case in which a young woman'-related how she had been enticed into an automobile by a traveling man, lured into a “fake” wedding and deceived. She sought to regain possession of her 3-year-old child, which had lived with an Indianapolis couple since it was seven months old. The court decided to leave the child -■ with its foster parents. His remarks were So touching that all those in the court room were in tears before he had finished.