"SIX YEARS FOR BURGLAR," Ottawa Journal. June 30, 1913. Page 1.
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Girouard, Renfrew Burglar, Goes to Kingston-Boy Gets Six Months.
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Renfrew, June 30. - (Special). - Joseph Cleroux, junior, a boy of about fifteen years of age; Mrs. Cleroux, mother of the boy; and Girouard, one of the men arrested at their home in Almonte on Thursday for attempting to burglarize the store of N. Dean and Bon, were brought before Police Magistrate Devine Saturday afternoon. The elder man was sentenced to six years in Kingston penitentiary, while the younger was given six months in Pembroke jail. Mrs. Cleroux, mother of the boy, and wife of Jos. Cleroux, senior, who was also under arrest but who escaped from the jail here, was let off on suspended sentence, but with the warning that she would be herself dealt with if found harboring or assisting her husband in any way.
[The reporting here appears to be inaccurate in the extreme. Girouard was not sentenced to a penitentiary term, and it was the younger Cleroux who got 2 years, not 6, in the penitentiary at the age of 17. He had already spent 2 years in the Mimico Industrial School. He was born in Ogdensburg, NY, but raised in Renfrew and was a naturalized Canadian subject. He was convict #F-617 and worked in the tailor shop. He was reported in July 1913, and then a number of times in January, February, March, July and August 1914, with 20 days remission lost and two long stints in solitary confinement - all for impertinence to officers, smoking, refusing to work, etc. He was released in March 1915.]
