From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 27, 1914:

• “A second robbery was unearthed in the City of Baldwin yesterday afternoon when the detectives secured the confession of two boys who broke into a grocery store and took ten cans of smoking tobacco, five hundred rifle cartridges and a box of twenty-five cigars. The boys were brought to Lawrence this morning and the trial was held before Judge Smart together with the boys who burglarized the Depot. The parties pleaded guilty of the charge and after some good admonition by the judge, were paroled in the care of their parents. Judge Smart lays the fault of these petty burglaries at Baldwin to the influence of college surroundings. He said that if an old man went behind a store and took a drygoods box to build a fire because he was cold he would be a thief and could be prosecuted by law, but if a gang of twenty college boys went behind twenty stores to get boxes to build a bonfire because they had won a football game that would be a prank…. It was just these little things that lead up to what has just happened. If they can get away with the little things they think they can with the big things…. Judge Smart said he did not like to parole boys of such good standing because they thought if they could be paroled once they could do it again, but he advised the boys that if they appeared again they would go. No matter where the boys go there will always be the charge of burglary against them in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas. In concluding Judge Smart said: ‘Get your feet firmly on the ground and look the world squarely in the face for everyone will watch you more closely now than before and see that they have no reason to suspect your actions.'”
• “Col. H. L. Moore of this city, who talked to the students of the University at chapel this morning, depreciated the new idea that paying pensions to old soldiers was a graft and that money went into the hands of pension sharks. By an interesting summary of the Civil War he showed that the men, or boys rather at that time, who fought for their country deserved the $13 or $26 as the case may be, for the hard work which they did. Colonel Moore’s talk was an interesting one, especially to the older people of Lawrence, many of whom attended chapel this morning.”
• “The case of City of Lawrence against Pattee, action for alleged obstruction of aisles at the Pattee theater, was dismissed today in the District Court by Prosecutor J. H. Mitchell.”