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BOY STOLE JEWELRY
Dime Novels Turned Frank Neureuther’s Mind.
[Welland Telegraph, 19 April 1912]
His mind partly turned by excessive reading of dime novels and continuous dwelling on criminal scenes in moving picture plays, a young boy named Frank Neureuther, aged seventeen, attempted to carry out some of the depredations of the dime novel and motion picture characters.
Neureuther was employed at the home of W.F. Haist on Hellems Avenue to do some papering. He took a gold watch valued at forty dollars, and a large quantity of other jewelry and money from the residence of Mr. Haist. Strange to say the valuables were not missed until after the Chief of Police had arrested the boy.
The prisoner gave the above mentioned reasons as the cause of his downfall. Magistrate Burgar allowed him to go on suspended sentence. The jewelry has been returned.
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