Tip Scammon came up for his trial.

He pleaded guilty to the thefts from the High School locker room, and also guilty to the charge of entering the Prescott rooms in order to hide his loot in Dick's trunk.

By way of leniency toward a first offender the court let Tip off with a sentence of fourteen months in the penitentiary.

This sentence, by good behavior on the part of Tip, would shrink to ten months of actual imprisonment.
In every way the police and the prosecuting attorney tried to make Tip reveal the name of his confederate.

But Tip, for reasons of his own, maintained absolute, dogged silence on this head, and went to the penitentiary without having named the person who met him in the alleyway that evening when Tip himself was caught.
The promise of skating was made good.