Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — No Extenuating Circumstances. [ARTICLE]

No Extenuating Circumstances.

The two boys had pleaded guilty to the charge of entering a man’s garden in the dead .of night and steeling Iris peaches and yrnpes- - - - ~ „ “Under ordinary conditions, my lads,” said the justice, “I might overlook the offense. If you had helped yourselves to a small portion of the fruit, and been satisfied with that, I should have considered it merely a slight misdemeanor and let you off with a lecture. But you stole nearly his entire crop. This man, moreover, is a life insurance agent, and it is about all he can do to make a living these days. I shall send you to the reform school.”