Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1905 — Young Clary’s Sentenced Suspended [ARTICLE]

Young Clary’s Sentenced Suspended

Judge Palmer called Homer Clary, the amatuer boy forger from Seafield, before him Thursday, and after informing him that under his plea of guilty the lightest penalty would be a sentence~in the Jeffersonville reformatory of from two to fourteen years, he passed that sentence upon him and then suspended it during good behavior. They boy went home with his father, and both promised he would resume his attendance at school, and be an entirely good boy hereafter. He is only 17 years old, and until the law [was recently changed he would have been sent to the reform school at Plainfield, rather than to the re formatory. The Judge gave the boy a good lecture, which would have been a good thing for any naturally wayward boy to have listened to. The sentenced stands over the boy and if at any time, his conduct is not w r hat it should be Judge Hanley can send for him, and com mithim at once to the reformatory, without further trail.