Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1914 — TANGO AS A CAUSE OF CRIME [ARTICLE]

TANGO AS A CAUSE OF CRIME

Brooklyn Judge Blames Theft by Two Youths to Nights Given to In suspending sentence In the cases of two youths who had pleaded guilty to attempted grand larceny, County Judge Fawcett In Brooklyn listed “white lights and tango nights” in the catalogue of Incentives to crime. 1 “You can’t expect to dance all night,” he said, “and He abed half the day. yet always have money for your carousals, unless you steal it. And let me tell you, our jails and penitentiaries are full of people with just such Ideas. If your family had given you good beatings Instead of money to spend, it would have been better for you.” The boys, John Colver, twenty years old, of 487 Hancock street, and Carlton Chapman, sixteen, of 362 Jefferson avenue, had been indicted for stealing money and jewelry from Adelaide Wiston, keeper of a furnished room house, where they lived for a time. They belong to respectable families >of moderate means. Both promised the judge to go home and begin again. Chapman to return to school and Colver to work. Both wore tango pumps and silk shirts when arraigned.—New York Sun. ,