Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — Sentenced to Reform School. [ARTICLE]

Sentenced to Reform School.

Lee Richards was sentenced to the reform school by Judge Thompson last Friday. It will be remembered that Lee was before the court in the spring and only escaped the reform school through the intercession of an uncle living in the country, who promised to take care of him and see that he was raised up properly. Lee carried himself all right while in the country but recently he was allowed to return to town and enter school and is again in trouble through stealing a basket of eggs from the buggy of Uncle Peter Foulks, of Milroy township. Lee is small for his age, which is eleven years, but is very bright, and with proper surroundings will no doubt come out all right yet, as he is not at all a bad boy at heart.