Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — Young Girl Arrested. [ARTICLE]

Young Girl Arrested.

On a complaint by her father, Florence, the 17 year old daughter of Len Griggs, was arrested and tried before Judge Hanley Monday afternoon, on a charge of incorrigibility. The father claimed he could do nothing with the girl, that she stayed from home, on- several different occasions, almost all night. He said that she would fiot work to clothe herself or contribute to her own support. The mother claimed she w : as a model daughter, that she did not wish the girl to work away from homh; that with a family of nine children and several of them quite small that she needed her to take care of them; that the girl never remained out at an unreasonable hour. ® The girl claimed that the father was unkind that all her father • v thought of was to get rid of the kids; that when they became 14 or 15 years old he wanted to kick them out and force them to support themselves and that her mother needed her at home to care for the children. —-r—Judge Hanley decided to givfe the girl another chance on acoount of her mother, but with the con dition that she do as her father might bid her.