Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1912 — Suspended Sentence on Promise of Good Behavior. [ARTICLE]

Suspended Sentence on Promise of Good Behavior.

Monday, sitting as Judge of the Juvenile Court, Judge Hanley sentenced Arthur Bissen den, a lad of about 15 years of age, to the reform school at Plainfield, but suspended sentence during good behavior. The boy has been employed for some time in McFarland’s grocery. Mr. McFarland had been missing money from the cash register and suspected the boy of having taken it. He reported the matter to nightwatch Critser and the lain r watched him Saturday night after h e was paid off. He went into a clothing store and bought an overcoat and made a payment thereon greater than the amount he had received from Mr. McFarland. Mr. Critser reported the matter to McFarland, and Monday Marshal Mustard arrested the boy and he confessed that he had been tapping the cash register right along. Mr. McFarland thinks that he had taken about S4O. The boy is a son of John Bissenden, the painter and paperhanger, and heretofore has borne a good reputation. He has promised to be good now, and it is hoped and believed that he will.