Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — BOYS LAND IN COURT. [ARTICLE]

BOYS LAND IN COURT.

Frolicsome Lads Steal Refreshments and Are Hauled Before “His Honor.” As a result of long-continued aping the ways of college hoodlums by pupils of the Rensselaer schools for many years, a crowd of boys of the present generation have gotten themselves into trouble with the courts. Last Thursday night there was some sort of class doings at the library and refrehments had been secured to serve there. Harry Wood, the janitor, was employed to guard the edibles —something that has become necessary at every social gathering in Rensselaer for several years because of such hoodlum actions—and while Harry was “watching one quarter of the boys broke out a pane of glass in one of the back windows, entered and stole the refreshments, and ate them up or destroyed them. The identity of the lads was learned and warrants sworn out for the arrest of five of them. Three were arrested and hauled before Squire Irwin, where they entered a plea of not guilty and, on account of Prosecutor Longwell being busy with the grand jury in Newton county this week, their cases were continued to March 23, they being held in bonds of SIOO each. Two others were arraigned in the circuit court and their bbnds fixed at SIOO each, but they were allowed to go on their own recognizance, and their cases will come up at the next term of court. The charge in all the cases is malicious trespass.