From the Lawrence Daily World for Nov. 12, 1910:

• “FATHERLY TALK TO PRISONER. Judge Smart Spoke Feelingly to Lad This Morning. ‘Your story may be perfectly straight,’ said Judge Smart this morning in imposing sentence upon George Harris, a self-confessed burglar, ‘but it sounds like that of a tramp. This country has got all the tramps it needs. The world is calling insistently for men. Bright young fellows with clean minds and big hearts. But it has no place for the tramp. You say you are only twenty years old. The county attorney believes you have the material of a useful man still in you, and hence he is giving you a chance, by accepting a lighter plea than the offense with which you are charged. Don’t make the mistake of going out of this room and boasting to your toughs that you “slipped one over” this court and this county attorney. You cannot always do that. You may select this morning, either to sleep in box cars and subsist upon handouts from back doors, or to live in a house like any other decent citizen and sleep every night in a clean bed. I am going to let you off with ten days in the county jail.’ Harris is the young harvest hand who bummed his way here from Ottawa last summer and was arrested after stealing a revolver, a fountain pen, and other articles from an east Lawrence home.”