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Children’s Precocious Crimes

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 18, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 24.

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Children’s Precocious Crimes

A REMARKABLE era of precocious crimes is upon us. Five little girls were recently arrested in New York charged with burglary and pocket-picking. The worst feature connected with the whole affair is the hardness of conscience, the utter indifference to crime, manifest on the part of the children. Once such a multitude of crimes by children would have startled the nation, but now these are but the mere matter of the talk of a day.