Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — BOYS SOB WHEN SENTENCED [ARTICLE]

BOYS SOB WHEN SENTENCED

Youthful Burglars Kent to Jeffersonville Reformatory. Lafaye to, Jnd.. April 13.—Three sobbing youths, with their mothers and sisters in tears, were sentenced to the JetTersonvi'lle reformatory today by Judge DeHart, in the circuit court, after pleading gulty to charge* o( burglary. The boys, Gilbert Shaw and Abe and Jesse Christy, were arrested Thursday night on a charge of robbing Monon railroad cars and local business house.-". The jiollce visited the homes of the boys and found several hundreds of dollars woTtih of stolen merchandise. None of the lads is yet twenty years old, but the Christy brothers have a!ready been inmates of the Indiana Boys’ school at Plainfield. The three boys were sentenced to terms of one to fourteen years in the reformatory.