"You helped her.''

"No, she dragged me along."

"What became of the hundred dollars you stole not long ago?" "I didn't steal it. Nellie did. I don't know what she did with it."

Attorney C. T. Moore at this point came into the office and after looking at the children told Magistrate Stewart that a woman employed in a store on Wood street had been robbed of a pocketbook and suspected Nellie. Attorney Moore followed the girl to her home, caught her and made her give up the book.

The story is the same in real life as Dickens created in "Oliver

Twist."' The children claim they are in the toils just the same as "Twist, was ruled by "Fagin." The authorities will likely take some steps to separate Roxie and Nellie from their parents. Nellie is a pretty child. Most everyone who shops in the market house has seen her. She carries a basket and goes from aisle to aisle, looking more like a big doll than a child compelled to live on the streets and steal for her father. She is bright-much more so than her brother-and would not tell the police that she was a pickpocket. It required expert cross-examination to trip her. Detectives William Shore and John Lally, who arrested them, had hard work to make the girl admit that she was sent out to steal. On the other hand, the boy has a mild look on his face. His eyes are large and have a hunted expression. "This youngster, " said Detective Shore, "knows every plain clothes man on the force. His pap sent him around here regularly to get acquainted, so he could tip the girl off when we came near. He came into the station once or twice a week for a long while. That's the reason there were no officers around when they nipped the pocketbooks.''

Superintendent Thomas A. McQuaide, of the Bureau of Detectives, said that complaints have been received at the front office many times during the last two months. Over $500 had been stolen from people while they were shopping in stores. He has no doubt but what Roxie and Nellie got the big share of the money.

A little newsie, a cousin to Roxie and Nellie, also had a statement to make.

"There is lots of kids that steals like them two," he said. "Why, there is gangs of them that goes about all day picking pockets and grabbing things in the stores. Every one of them takes the money they gets home, unless they make a good haul, then they go down in the Diamond and buys things to eat. never stole any because I was never sent out. But I know there is lots of others, who don't sell papers or nothin,' but they have to steal because their old mans whip them if they don't."

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This story shows that in the darkness of the slums there is much that is unseen. And, after all, in the cases of Roxie an' Nellie, circumstances and environment, as shaped by their father, have been such as to shove all responsibility away in the background.

DRAFT OF JUVENILE COURT LAW FOR WASHINGTON, D. C.

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persons so charged shall be under the age of seventeen years, it shall not be necessary to hold the trial of such case or cases in the Juvenile Court, but the trial of such offenders shall be conducted as heretofore, anything in the act to the contrary notwithstanding.

The jury for service in the Juvenile Court shall consist of twelve men, who shall possess the usual qualifications of jurors and be selected in the usual manner. In all cases tried before the Juvenile Court the judgment of that court shall be final, excepting when such decisions are overruled by higher courts. The bill gives the Juvenile Court the usual powers to enforce its judg ments. The sittings of the court shall be from day to day as business requires.

In regard to appeals from the judgment of the Juvenile Court the bill makes the following provisions:

"All appeals from the Juvenile Court shall be heard and determined in the Supreme Court sitting in general term. If, upon the trial of any cause in the Juvenile Court, an exception be taken by or on behalf of the United States, the District of Columbia or any defendant to any ruling or instruction of the court upon matter of law the same shall be reduced to writing and stated in a bill of exceptions, with so much of the evidence as may be material to the question or questions raised, which bill of exceptions shall be settled and signed by the judge within such time as may be prescribed by rules and regulations which shall be made by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the transaction of business to be brought before it under this section, and for the time and method for the entry of appeals and for giving notice of writs of error thereto from the Juvenile Court; and upon presentation to any justice of the Supreme Court of a petition which, in the case of a defendant, shall be verified, setting forth the matter or matters so excepted to such justice shall be of opinion that the same ought to be reviewed, he may allow a writ of error in the cause, which shall issue out of the said Supreme Court, addressed to the judge of the Juvenile Court, who shall forthwith send up the information filed in the cause, and a transcript of the record therein, certified under the seal of

his said court, to the Supreme Court for review and such action as the law may require, which record shall be filed in said Supreme Court within such time as may be prescribed by the Supreme Court, as herein before provided.

MUST GIVE NOTICE.

"Any party desiring the benefit of the provisions of this section shall give notice in open court of his, her or its intention to apply for a writ of error upon such exceptions, and thereupon proceedings therein shall be stayed for ten days. Provided, that the defendant seeking an appeal shall there and then enter into recognizance, with sufficient surety to be approved by the judge of the Juvenile Court, conditioned that in the event of a denial of his application for a writ of error he will, within five days next after the expiration of said ten days, appear in said Juvenile Court and abide by and perform its judgment, and that in the event of the granting of such writ of error he will appear in said Supreme Court and prosecute the writ of error and abide by and perform its judgment in the premises.

"Upon failure of any defendant to enter into the recognizance provided for in this section the sentence of the Juvenile Court shall stand and be executed; otherwise execution shall be stayed pending proceedings upon his or her application for a writ of error and until final disposition thereof by the said Supreme Court."'

"There is no work so important or so grand and noble in its results as that for little children. Do not hesitate, then, to protect them from neglect and vice and to aid them in the develop. ment of upright character."

"Remove the young from schools of crime, and place them under virtuous and benign influences, and almost in the same proportion do we cut of what, later on, will form part of our criminal population."

ST. LOUIS JUVENILE COURT TRIES HOMICIDE CASE. For the first time in the history of the Juvenile Court a boy has been tried for homicide. On Wednesday, March 30, little Adolph Miller, 16 years of age, stood before Judge Jesse McDonald in the St. Louis Juvenile Court, a defendant to answer to the charge of killing 14-year-old Joseph Leppold during a fight near the Iron Mountain tracks at 3800 South Main street, on May 12, 1903. With little sign of emotion except an occasional quiver of the lip or a nervous gesture of his small hands, the juvenile delinquent pleaded not guilty" to a charge of murder in the second degree. The youthful defendant sat beside his attorney throughout the presentation of testimony and the last arguments to the jury, and listened to the foreman reading the verdict of manslaughter in the fourth degree. During the entire proceedings he showed not the slightest interest, and there was scarcely a change in the fixed expression of his features.

IS SON OF A CARPENTER.

The convicted defendant is the eldest son of Charles Miller, Two weeks before the a carpenter living at 1108 Ohio avenue. commission of the crime the Miller family occupied a houseboat on the Mississippi river near the scene of the subsequent crime. In the neighborhood lived a boy named Joseph Leppold, son of William Leppold, of 3858 South Main street.

According to the testimony of young Miller, his first meeting with the Leppold boy was the beginning of enmity between them. Miller was a country boy. His parents had come to St. Louis from Grand Tower, Ill. The lad's unsophisticated manner is said to have made him the subject of many witicisms from his new South Main street acquaintances, among whom was the Leppold lad.

The alleged taunts and boyish insults to which young Miller was subjected culminated in a tragedy on the afternoon of May 12. Two days previous Miller and Leppold are said to have come to blows over a laughing reference made by Miller to a puncture in the tire of a bicycle ridden by Leppold. The latter is said to have threatened the life of Miller in the presence of others, and the story was carried to the "country boy."

On the day of the killing, Miller testified, he had been sent on an errand for his mother; that he was waylaid on the Iron Mountain tracks by the Leppold boy; that a fight ensued during the course of which a knife was drawn, Leppold was stabbed, and the tragedy was brought to a close at the Alexian Brothers' hospital, where Leppold died on May 19.

ARRESTED AND INDICTED.

Miller was arrested and indicted by the grand jury on a charge of murder in the second degree. On account of the defendant's youth, the case was certified from the criminal division of the circuit court to the juvenile court. Judge Jesse McDonald, of Division No. 8 of the circuit court for criminal cases, was assigned to preside over the trial.

The parents of both boys were present in the court room when the case was called. The boyish defendant sat beside his attorney, Campbell Cummings, directly facing the witness stand. When called to give his own testimony the defendant exhibited little emotion as he handled the knife with which the stabbing was done and the vest worn by the murdered boy.

Attorney Andrew C. Maroney conducted the prosecution. The only eye witness to the stabbing, William Rosenberg, in front of whose home the fight occurred, was the important witness for the state. He testified that he saw blows passed between the two boys and that Miller pushed Leppold several times, with the evident intention of throwing him to the ground. When Rosenberg approached to part the combatants he found that young Leppold had been stabbed in the back.

MRS. LEPPOLD ON STAND.

The most dramatic incident of the trial occurred when Mrs. Leppold, the mother of the murdered boy, took the stand. In answer to a question by Attorney Cummings as to whether the defendant had grown taller since the day of the fight, she requested that he stand on the floor before her. With noticeable reluctance young Miller rose and faced the witness. The slender little woman leaned forward and looked steadily into the boy's face, her lip trembling and her eyes filling with tears. Miller averted his eyes, stared at the ceiling and picked nervously at his trousers. It was some moments before the witness answered: "Yes, he has grown."

During the cross-examination Miller became badly confused and was excused after having been forced to make several contradictory statements.

Judge McDonald instructed the jury to return a verdict of either murder in the second degree or manslaughter in the fourth degree, depending upon whether the testimony appeared to show premeditation; or for acquittal if the testimony established selfdefense. The arguments to the jury by Attorneys Maroney and

Cummings were brief. The jury retired at 8 o'clock, March 31, returning with a verdict of manslaughter in the fourth degree at 9:30 the next morning. The maximum punishment is confinement in the reform school until the defendant is 21 years of age. COLORED BOY ACQUITTED.

At the close of this case Leon Reynolds, 15 years old, colored, was acquitted of the charge of shooting Harry S. Koehler, a 14year-old white boy, on February 22, 1900. The case was given to the jury at 6 o'clock in the evening, and four hours later a verdict of not guilty was returned. Judge McDonald at once discharged the boy.

Koehler was killed during a fight between white and colored boys. The colored boys were under the Jefferson avenue bridge and the white boys were on the structure. The testimony showed that the boys had been throwing stones at each other. Finally one of the white boys fired a blank cartridge and was answered by a shot from below. Koehler was struck by the bullet in the head and died soon after. At the coroner's inquest several colored boys testified that the shot had been fired by a white boy.

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