Mike was staying at the Albert and Annie Polka farm, Northeast of New Waverly. One Sunday, he refused to go to church and was punished. While the rest of the family was at church, he made a torch of some dried corn stalks and preceded to burn all of the laundry that was hanging on the clothes line. Joe Traylor, the constable who lived next door to the Polka farm arrested Mike and charged him with criminal mischief. Mike was convicted and spent several years in the state juvenile training school in Gatesville, TX.
Census
1920
State Juvenile Training School, Gatesville, Coryell, TX [8]