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The Spirit Of Democracy
Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio
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Governor Wood pardoned a 10-year-old boy from Ohio State Prison, who had been sent there from Cleveland for arson on a citizen's stable at the instigation of older boys. The text criticizes Cleveland's lack of a House of Refuge for vagrant youth.
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Gov. Wood pardoned out of the State Prison a few days since a boy of 10 years who had shortly before been sent there from Cleveland, for firing the stable of one of the citizens, at the instigation of other boys older in years and crime. Think of a boy only 2 feet 1 inch in height, and 54 lbs weight, a criminal in the State Prison among hundreds of aged and hardened villians, who have run a career of all the crimes in the calendar. He could neither read or write, but he was an "old un" in profanity and could puff a segar with a perfect abandon.
The pardon came from the Executive with commendable propriety. The condemnation of such a criminal could not be censured in the Court but the negligence of the people of Cleveland in not providing a House of Refuge, where all such vagrant boys could be restrained and often reformed, is a matter which cannot be so easily defended.—Cin. Enq.
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Cleveland
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A Few Days Since
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boy pardoned from state prison
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A 10-year-old boy, 2 feet 1 inch tall and 54 lbs, illiterate but proficient in profanity and smoking, was sent to State Prison from Cleveland for firing a citizen's stable at the instigation of older boys. Gov. Wood pardoned him. The text notes the inappropriateness of imprisoning such a youth with hardened criminals and criticizes Cleveland for lacking a House of Refuge for vagrant boys.