Identifier: boyhoodlawlessne00true (find matches)
Title: Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: True, Ruth Smiley, 1886- Neglected girl
Subjects: Girls Boys Women Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: (New York : Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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hat revolver whichwas shot down the street just now. Nothing couldhave been done. You cant find out who had the re-volver. The police wont try to make any arrests, andif they do, the boys are always let right out again.The insurance companies wont insure plate glass inthis neighborhood any more, and the whole place seemsto be just at the mercy of these little ruffians. On one occasion a gang was short of bonfire materialat election time. The members raided a neighboringstreet, took the gang there by surprise, extinguished itscelebration bonfires, and carried the wood in triumphback to their own street. War was immediately de-clared by the despoiled, and a regular after-school cam-paign followed. Through an injury to one of theirnumber the gang in an intervening street became in-volved, and sided with the bonfire stealers. War thenbecame general and for a year was a constant subjectfor discussion among old and young in the neighbor-hood. The boys of the defensive gang more than held 48
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Resting. What Next?

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