Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 156, Hammond, Lake County, 22 December 1922 — Page 9

Fridav, December 22, 1922

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BOY CRIMINALS PUZZLE TO . JURISTS

One Magistrate Sends 16-Year-Old Boy to Prison 30 to 39 Years xl'wJl1- NEWS service; Nivv oKK. Dc-Wht la to be dona with th boy criminal th youth, who tiemi too younp to be P'i. behind Triton bars, yet actually is "a raenaeo to tho community?'" Judga Burt J. Humphreys, of the Queens County Court, has answered i Ue question In the only manner t-hat seems feasible to him he has ent a 18-year-old boy to prison for a term of not less than 30 nor more than 39 years. Albert Kroner, alias Albert Johnson, the "convict," is suilty of robbery, assault and frand larceny. Judge Humphreys, shocked at the enormity of the boy's crimes, on sentencing him. declared: JIDGE SHOCKED 'Tou axe a very young boy, so youns; that it shocks me to think that a boy of your aye could commit crimes so brutal in their nature. Tou have had every opportunity to live a decent life, yet you have- always shown that you preferred a life of crime. "I find there are aome people to n hom a month In Jail is as good as a lifetime, while there are others who never should have their liberty, and I think, you are one ot those. "No house is safe with you at" large, and people in Jamaica were actually afraid to remain alone n their homes, fearing that you might enter and d them bodily harm. J am afraid you will never change, therefore I must send you away fcr the protacttoa of the public. ' Effort6 were made to prove that thu boy was Insane, for his depredations were marked, not only by shrewd crimnial talent, but by acis of fiendish cruelty. The larv decided he as sane,, but criminal. ZA-GEROtS TTPB Asi;ed to comment on the KruSer 'astj Justice Franklin C. Hojt ,who haw studied many similar cases

while presiding over the Children's Court, declared that this particular type of criminality is most dange--ous of all. because, being high-gTade defectives, they often escapo interception which Is euro to apprehend those of lesser intelligence. "It is easy enough to take care of idiots and Imbeciles such cases solve themselves usually," Juslice Hoyt began. "The higher grade defectives are not recogniied at flrst glance, and yet they are always ie ones liable to cimralt the most serious crimes at the slightest suggestion. "The insane can be recognized and dealt with as the idiots and imbeciles can. "It is these borderland cases that are the most dangerous. "We need smaller homes and smaller schools in which to study these more difficult types, the higher grade deefotives." In answer to the expected sympathy so generally called forth by the spectacle- of a boy in prison. Justice Hoyt makes answer: MTXACB TO COM ML X IT Y "Tho community is not safe with such a boy at large. "Until, some change is effected In his moral balance it is likewise unsafe to return him to the community. "This type, which we meet occasionally, is the moral imbecile, sane and abnormally Intelligent rather than deficient mentally.' But he has no sense of moral values or any inhibitions to restrain him. ""With many cases we know immediately that we are dealing with defectives. 'With insanity it is different, too; that is. comparatively easy to establish. The inxane can be cared for, and the subnormal can be trained. "Lyons sentences are necessary In some of the 'custodian cases.' On the other hand, a number of the higher grade types, after training, can return as self -supporting members of the community." Most of u feel sorry that a 16-year-old mutt go to jail for any reason at all, tut what else ia there to do? We can scarcely wait till these lawless youngsters add more notches to their weapons by Increasing their numbers of prey.

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