Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — Sent to Reform School. [ARTICLE]

Sent to Reform School.

Augustus Rodgers, a boy a little under 16 years o’d, whs ordered sent to the state Reform School for boys, Tuesday, the bgal name of whiob institution being now, ‘‘The Indiana Sohool for Biys.” The boy’s home was about a mile east of DeMotte, in Keener tp., and be was sent on application of the township trustee, S. L. Luce. The father has abandoned the family, and he livid wity bis mother Jane Rodgers, when more cleanly and congenial quarters were not available in hams, haystacks and oorn cribs

The boy has been practically homeless in fact, and got so muoh in the habit of roaming about, and sleeping wherever the night overtook him and dining on surreptitiously ob'ained poultry and othe r similar products, that he would not stay BDy place even when he was given work, and good quarters in comfortable homes. That he was quite exousabls for not staying with his mother, was shown in the evidence that when a pirty oalted at her honse to get the boy to work, be found a 150 pound hog in the post of honor under the only stove, and several dogs waiting for the plaoe when the hog took his morning wa’k, And it was a regular hog hog too, that was under the stove, and not a hog of the human species.

Judge* Hanley ordered the boy sent to the sohool until he is 21. unless his oouduot and progress justifies an earlier discharge.