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Imitating Crime

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 13.

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Imitating Crime.

At Findlay, Ohio, recently an example was given of the alacrity with which children imitate the crimes of which they read or hear. A number of youth had witnessed the play, “Tracy, the Outlaw,” and, enthused with the exploits of the bandit, seized a youth of their own age, carried him to a lonely spot, and had about completed preparations for burning him at the stake when workmen heard his cries and rescued him.