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ORDEAL OF A JUDGE.
Law-abiding M.P.s, sitting in a prosaic roomr at the House of Commons last month, heard the truth about the wild lawlessness of Chicago from one of the men who should know. most about it-Tudge Cavanaugh, of Chicago.
Mr. W. H. Ayles: Do you think that the alternative of a life sen tenes should be given a chance ?
Judge Cavanaugh We have al- rendy given t too much of a chance. There are thousands in our prisons for killing their fellow men, and many of them should have been executed.
Chicago & Normal City. Would you describe Chicago na a normal American city 1-Outside. this one phase, Chicago is a normal city.
Judge. Cavanaugh then told of the case of a man named Coffee. said the Judge, was The Judge was giving evidence This man, before the Special Committee on determined to kill his bigamous Capital Punishment. He told of wife to escape prosecution. murders, guamen, women poison-
He took her from the State of ers and faked" alibis in Chicago.existed, to Wisconsin, where life Town, where capital punishment "Outside this phase," he added, imprischmeat was the extreme "Chicago is a normal city.”.
punishment, and killed her there,
He afterwards confessed that his, motive for doing so was to escape the danger of the death penalty.
Judge Cavanaugh told the Com mittee that he favoured the reten- tion of the death penalty in cer- tain eases, but it was not a matter which could be generalised. Ons of the cases where he did not favour capital punishment was, in the case of women,
In some states in America, said the Judge, capital punishment was the best deterrent; in others it not. In New York, for in- stance. there was twice the chance that an assassin would meet his late than in Chicago; and the
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Judge Cavanaugh said that 40 per cent of crime in America was Lommitted by negroes. The negro was only four generations from the jungle from the days when they hunted each other for their din ners. Sometimes negroes killed for the mere pleasure of killing.
Comparing American and British in homicide the Judge statistics said that a remarkable thing about England was the number of mur- derers who committed suicide. "He ing of hopelessness in Aghting the laws of the country.
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high in Chicago than in New York.
Sixteen states in America had abolished the death penalty and eight had re-introduced it.
"A Horrible Ordeal."
Women Pelacners.
In America & large proportion of women murderers were poisoners, and others were pailty in that they incited men to crime.
Dr. Ethel Bentham Would you make any difference in the punish ment of men and women? Yes, I would hesitate to impose the death penalty on a woman, though I can- not tell you why. It is a matter of feeling...
Judge Cavanaugh gave details about grime in Chicago. He said:
In 1920, we were overwhelmed with persons awaiting trial for homicide in Coicago. It was my duty to assign the cases to other judges. It was a horrible ordeal. My comparatively small court room was crowded with men and women who had taken human life. Four- teen were executed, and the maur. LETTERS FROM THE DEAD. der rate in Chicago dropped from 308 to 109.
"There are perhaps 200 people walking the streets of Chicago sale and well today who would have been in their graves if these mis- creants had not paid the penalty.
"Every time the death sentence 1s not carried out the murder rate: goes up, and every time there is an execution the murder rate goes down.
ONE A MONTH FOR 11 YEARS.
John Walker, a condemned bank bandit is going to cheat the gal- lowa in at least one respect.
Long after he is dead, letters written by him will continue to confort his 70-year-old mother in Joplin, Missouri,
I am inclined to believe that 1re. Walker, of Joplin, is never
is a merciful going to be told of her son's execu the death sentence thing because it saves innocent tion.
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By the use of the death penalty Prison Walker is writing 12 let you have gradually abolished preters for cach, rear uni 1941-132 datory
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America are a floating scum the population. To convict
"My mother is an old lady." sometimes extraordinarily difficult. says Walker. "She may not live Here is a case within my experi-touch longer.
ence:
"She is never going to be told
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"A father and son were appoint about my baring to swing, and I ed by a secret society to kill two thought that if she keeps on getting men. They were accompanied by letters from me she'd never suspect acommittee of five. They met the anything.
"Maybe she will pass on before men and fatally wounded one of
the letters give aut. It would be them. The other man escaped, and, most unusually, came forward better that way." to testify. The other man made a dying declaration.
"The father and son who were' appointed to commit the murder were arrested, but they brought into my court sixty-two witnesses to prove an alibi. If they had wanted them they could have got a lot more.
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I convicted the father and son. They appealed to the Supreme Court, who said to me: What do you mean by convicting against the testimony d sixty-two witnesses 7" The two men were set free."
"What Would your police do in circumstances of that kind?"
Judge Cavanaugh cited another instance. A wealthy lawyer, named Ossario, who was a major in the Great War, was dining one night with a companion. He left the table for a few moments, and when be returned his companion bâd gone. He went out on to the pave. ment.
In a few moments a voice was heard crying, "Ossario, Ossario." Then there were shots. The voice was heard again, and there were more ahots. Many people saw that murder actually committed, bpt net one would come forward to testify. "I ask you, Judge Cavanaugh repeated, what would your police, do in a case like that
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Judge Caranaugh said that the war had had no influence on erime; either in America or England. When be was last in London he beard Sir Ernest Wild (the Re eorder of London) tell his Grand Jury that there were only twɑ. charges of robbery with violence in the whole of the great City of London in three months. That was a remarkable fact
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Homicide had incressed in recent. yeats in America. The prohibition laws had created a special kind of criminal, generally of Southern European birth These men killed each other with considerable · fre queney,
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Situata at MA TAU KOK, KOWLOON in the Colony of Hong Kong, being All That Piece or Parcel of Ground Registered in the LAND Omaz 83 KOWLOON INLAND LOT No. 640, (Area 94,500 Square Feet Crown Bent $371,00) and
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