New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1923, Page 16

e e T R e T e T e e g Connolly Opposes Detention House e e e | e R " aoe s For Children Placed Under Arrest First Repart on Work of Juvenile Court Shows the System Is Functioning Admirably Here, New Co report for court of t ety of Probation Officer K, C lescribes the new system In his first annua Juvenile Niritain, nolly ‘complet® sue The that there for establishing @ place of detention for juvenile offen dors, such as is suggested by law, He feels that this phase of the problem can be worked out by the officer amd the PProbation Officer follows Agreeable custom prevadled in the City and Police court since 1903, when the probation law went into effect, 1 submit herewith the first annual report and statisties of the Juvenile court of the City of Now Britain for the twelve months ending December 21, 1922 ‘Although un Juvenile court on the probation work connected with the court is not only enlightening, in teresting and useful to the officials of also be in demand agencies 1 reports in a 5. prabation i need parents, Connolly’s report to which ha» for by the annual report law an our court but will by their child welfare preparing statisties and their own particular field “Total number of boys brought in court from 1922 to December 31, tal number of girls under 16, 19, To- tal number of boys on probation car- ried over from City and Police court. January 1, 1922, 31. Total number of boys placed on probation during the year, 98, Discharged from probation during the year, 93 Remaining on probation January 1, 1923, 36, Total number of girls under 16 ried over from City and Police court, 0. Placed on probation during the year, §, Dis- charged from probation during the year, 7. Remaining on probation January 1, 1923, 1. Number of girls committed to Long Lane Farm, Mid- dletown, 7. Number of boys commit- ted to Connecticut School for Boys, Meriden, 14, Number of boys com- mitted to Hartford County Temporary Home, 1. Number of boys returnec to Connecticut School for Boys for violation of parole, 4. Number of commitment cases appealed, 4. Num- ber of boys' and girls’ cases suspend- ed and discharged, 93. Number boys discharged from probation dur- ing the year, 93. Number of girls ischarged from probation during the year, 7. Number of boys remaining on probation January 1, 1923, 36. Number of girls remaining on proba- tion January 1, 1923, 1. Number of cases settled out of court, involving 74 boys, 24. Number of girls’ cases set- tied out of court, 5. Number of visits and investigations made in connection with the work, aside from office visits by probationers, 394. Amount of money collected by offiicers from pro- bationers as restitution, $58.75 Says Totals Are Not Excessive. “In reviewing the foregoing figures the total number of cases coming to our notice is not excessive for a city of the population and cosmopolitan character of New Britain. In fact we are to be congratulated when it is recalled that representatives of thirty to thirty-five nationalitics make their home here. “It may be well to recall the fund- amental principle underlying the old and new way of treating the delin- quent under sixteen years of age who has to be taken in hand by the au- thorities. TUnder the old law, the legal basis for the treatment of ju- venile delinquency in Connecticut was that the child is a criminal charged with and prosecuted for a specific, of- fence, the procedure connected with the trial being practically the same as that of the adult. Under the new Juvenile Court law no child can be under 16 January prosecuted for any offence betore a juvenile court nor does the decree of any such juvenile court carry a con- viction of crime, The hearing is held in a place other than a criminal court and every protection thrown about the child to safeguard his interests. “With this principle in mind, that the child is not a criminal, the whole machinery of the courts had to be al- tered to meet the new law. Britain, by request of your honor, placed the common council chamber in the city hall at our convenience and since that time all the hearings of the court are held there Saturday mornings at nine o'clock. No one but those directly interested in the case are allowed to be present except by permission of the judge, so that there is the necessary privacy,ywhile the dignity of the proceeding is not lack- ing and the child has an opportunity to give his version of the trouble to the judge without being embarrassed or frightened by uniforms or spec- tators. Less Criticism Heard. “At first there @ fear in some minds that thenew method was like- ly to defeat its own purpose in that the boy or girl would mistake kind- ness for weakness and that those who needed to be disciplined would escape correction. Other features were —DRINK — AYERS’ SODA WATER Take home a large bottle of lemon and lime—something you will like— it's delicious. Three size bottles—5c, A.D. Clifford ~ BUILDER — 44 Hawley Street ESTIMATES FURNISHED Jobbing Promptly Attended to Tel. 2801, Mardwood Floors and Paneled Ceilings & specialty. 10c, 15c. Tel. 1492 probation | New NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18 1023, e e L e —— e e e S S big tongs and guided the fery mass | might, it hindrance that “ out prove pointed thought than & help. less oriticism of the law is be ever ing heard and our it is very hard for the escape being ealled 1 matter what the capade may be | vostigation Pr | “The faet that it is | sory for probation officer to make a full investigation all phases of the ecase and present a written report to the judge befare the hearing, s proving a great faetor in finding the account, ne nature of the es- to Hearing, now compuls ihe terview v any other | complainant A written record must | fram the sehool one of the paren: [ b secured tends and either result of all this proeeaure is that the | hild, the and the court are more all the facts connected with the case and when the hearing is held the child and his parents are made to un- lerstand that what matters most s | the future welfare of the child and | that all the machinery of the court is set up for prevention and correction ! with view to preparing him or her for 'nmm~ responsibilitios and eitizenship, ‘Very often the ofticer finds on visiting the home that neither ene of | the parents are aware that their child has been into mischief and quite fre (uently they take ecare of the trouble In @ way that makes it unnecessary to bring the delinquent into court. In this w 20 cases involving 74 boys and five girls were disposed of last vear. Every complaint coming to the officer is investigated and a re port filed for future reference Home Life Often to Blame | “Many of the cases coming to my | ittention are due to lack of the pro- per home life and training. They come from homes where ther or mother are either too ignorant to as- sume or wilfully disregard their re- | igious and moral responsibilities in the care of their children; homes, where they cling to the old world cus. toms and do not keep pace with ‘Young America’; where the father and mother both work 10 hours a day, neglecting their children as a re- sult; where the family have to be con- tent with hastily prepared meals or | none at all, until mother returns at night at which time she is too tired in body and mind to take any special interest in the children. In quite a tew instances I found there was no necessity for the mother to add to the income by working in the factory and have tried to convince the parents that example is better than precept; that it pays better in every way for the mother to stay at home and set the example of correct living herself and that simple, every day honesty and contentment is what counts most in making a happy home life, No Need of Detention House “We have during the last year been able to get along without a regular detention home suggested in the law, as the cases needing confinement be- fore hearing have been few. It is a ydebatable question as to whether or not detention homes are an absolute need or best way of solving the prob- lem, Our neighboring state of Massachusctts, pioneer in probation work, has no such homes and man- |ages to get along without them. My personal conviction is that the par- cnts should be made responsible for the delinquent's appearance in court and made to give a bond in doubtful cases. Usually the probation officer can meet the need as it arises. If it should become absolutely necessary to use other means the judge has the authority to provide a place and sve that the expense is taken care of. parents, it Jhie Lincoln Realfi (o. A LOOK into the past is the same thing as a peep into the future. Property is bound to advance. Now is the time to buy where you can get real real estate advice. LT HONE. Pugo THE LINCOLN REALIY [ < Yy Room 212 N W ok, ’_mt\‘ ”B CBets it Do Court Street |Private Hospital LAURA DEMOS, SUPT. Equipped for Medical, Surgical and Maternity 28 COURT ST. TEL. 2900 e e ese——— COLD WEATHER NEEDS We have a full line of new and second-hamd stoves, oil heaters, gas lieaters, etc. A. LIPMAN New and Secondhand Furniture. 21 Lafayette St Tel. 1320-2 Was (of ehild life rather | jaw As time goes on, how- | cxperiences of the | where xperience 1s that | quent delinquent Lo |some of the states for over 20 years tures of the stressed but whieh te de make this report 100 lengthy he at-|the kindness, patience and inter [all times displayed in the conduet of must be present at the hearing, The'the cases winter, a blizz an alibi in general sessions yesterday for [ Ninety-ninth straet, who was tried on bet James J. Davis, sccretary of bor, snatch a 200-pound ball of white hot metal of a pair of 12-foot suspended tongs as he did 20 years ago. went down to dling Mill” in Tenth street, where they gave him a 12-foot bar, a pair of big tongs, and told him *go ahead.” The secretary thrust the bar into the 200- pound white hot ball of iron, turned Best Work 160 Washington St. AS might be expeeted there ar hese will be taken care of al the | present legislature by these interested | Taking it altogether it is a very satis factory piece of great step forward In the and @ protection In the framing of the has profited by the other 40 states for the juvenile delin alveady in existence, in legislation Conneeticut laws Wore interesting fea could be so would other law whiech There “In econclusion I wish to thank the members of the deteetive bureau and poli us Har tended, the attendanee officer does not feel | Fight solution for each particular case. | principals and teachers of our public This investigation necessitates a per- | and | sonal contact With the home, an in-|operation and intere th the boy, his parents, and | sgoncies of our eity for help afforded nterested party,such as the ! when needed in any of the families n foree in general for the cordiul tanee given me at all times, Chief for the aid and courtesies ox burean and pls for their co parochial seh , and the soeia 50 indebted to the court for at “I am Strietly fresh eggs 61¢, Russell Bros, fully informed than ever before | —advt (Moon and Elements Prove Alibi for Accused Negro Jan, 18,~The moon, a York, d and a storm proved New James King, a negro of 67 West charge of assault made by Helmar Ternlund of 77 East Seventy.seventh street, another negro attacked him and woman companion in Central last June negro plainly because was shining, Ternlund said that King and “ Park the moon he saw full 24, and that a James H. 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At the same oressing this merning | the same truckman drove another truck inte the Reading meorning ex press, alse, going seventy miles an bour, Engineer louis MelLean ap- plied his emergency brakes, out could not stop in time, The train crew went back and found the truck driver, uninjured, untoading feed from the remains of the truck to a wagon. $14,800 FOR HOR! i KICK Coneord, N, H,, Jan, 18.—Although Mra, Larg Anderson of Washington and Boston, wife of the former am- bassador to Belgium, had that she knew the horse, Bawdsey Amer all his life, and that she was sure he never kicked, a jury in feder- ¢Jal court today awarded damages of $14,500 to Andrew J, Cralg of Bed- tord, an exhibitor at a horse show at which Bawdsey Amber was ontered, for injuries received two years ago, claiming the horse kicked him, Eggs are lower. Itussell Bros,—advt, pure. Milk that brings to you all of the crean: that came with the milk, That’s Seibert’s and pasteurized. 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