In Detroit With A Truant

In Detroit With a Truant.

Detroit Evening News: Sheriff Judson carne to Detroit with Earl Kelley, of Manchester, a truant from the 31st. "Kelley's only 16," said the sheriff. "His parents are good folks and he's sorry. He wants to square himself. It'd be an awful thing to have him get into trouble as a deserter. It'd stick to him all his life and he couldn't vote." This was the worst possible punishment the sheriff could think of and he repeated it over and over. "Couldn't vote--no, sir, he couldn't vote. We've got to get the boy back where he can square himself or he can't vote." The boy was taken to Port Wayne in hopes that Capt. Lovering will send him to his regiment. The sheriff will write Col. Gardener recommending mercy on the ground that the boy is young and was homesick.