BUDDY PRICE, AGED 12, ARRESTED AS BURGLAR
Delmar., Dec. 14. "Buddy" Price, a twelve year old colored boy. was arrested here late Wednesday night and taken to the Jail at Georgetown by Officer Hearn. Tuesday night, a store operated by Cecil Kline, on Railroad avenue, was robbed and Kline suspected the boy. Wednesday night he waited for him in the darkness and as the boy ripped a board from across the lower part of the window, which had been broken when an entrance had been forced on the previous night, Kline fired and chased him around the block. When "Buddy" was caught, he Immediately gave himself away by saying that he was not the boy who had robbed the store the night before.
He has been in Jail here before for fighting and residents on Jewel and First streets have been missing bottles of milk for some nights, last night, he was seen emptying one of the missing bottles, as he went along early in the evening.
When tried before Magistrate Hearn. the little vagrant burst Into tears, but was told that he would have a better home In jail than he has here, where he has no parents, and lives with an aged grandmother, who is not able to care for him.
Above from The News Journal Wilmington Delaware Dec 14 1923
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