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PRISON REFORM.
STRANGE DRAMA.
MOVING MOUNTAINS.
Treatment Instead of
Punishment.
Women of Seventy Shoots Saltor.
Strange Phenomens in Near East. History for is it legend ?) telis] Paris "December lars" wi
Constantinople: Mohammed of a gaol at Reading where the brought strikingly to the attentionsvidently was not patient enough Oriminals were cured by kiadness, of French criminologists through |--not one but two mountaine at where they were surrounded by the shooting of thirty-seven-Geiri, near the mouth of the all the amenities of the good life, year-old stokar named Aflegot by Sakariyah river, finally have de- especially with books, until their his seventy-one-year-old sweat-cided to move. place of residence grew to be heart, Madame Mareobal a widow called the Reading Reading in the village Herobles, near here are of them has advanced According to reporta receivad, Reading gaol, and where a certain Beauvais.
fifty yards at intervals in the last frequent inmate, being asked Although Allegotpressed bissult four months, steam-rollering the reproachfally why he had return many moons, Hadame Marechal village of Jamallkeny, swallow- ed eo soon after his last visit, refused to marry him. However, ing up more than half a mile of explained that he had come back she let him make his home road, spreading consternation to finish a book, says an English in ber house. Some time ago through the countryside, and Press correspondent.
[the stoker, finding himself threatening to dam the river closs Some such damning favour of locked out, broke in The widow to the famous strategic Geivi ineffectual sentimentality is be-prosecuted and had her lover, mountain pass. lieved by the public at large to thirty-four years her junior, sent) In its wake Jamil Bay, a hang around most attempts to to prison for three months. Turkish engineer, has inves drop the retributive element of Eventually be returned,
tigated the mineral deposits,
our penal'system Pizio and not Madame Marechal, believing covered and laid bare an in- necessarily stony-hearted folk feel her life was endangered, obtained careating cross section of geologi- that when all is said about harde pistol from her seventy-two-l strata giving up other secrets. cases too much attention to them year-old brother. After ordering of the mountain likely to prove does make bad law, and that if Allegot to leave she fired two valuable to scientists.
| reformers were giren unlimited shots. The wounded man died Natives thus describe the licence a state of society would shortly afterward without making mountain's motivities-it starts arise in which no one's life was a statement.
suddenly, the earth trembles and secure except the murderer's. This feeling that punishment is in made a full confession, alleging sounds like a distant cannonade Although Madame Marechal fissures appear engulfing houses itself a healthy thing, combined self-defense, the police arrested followed by a noise like a giant on the line of march; then it with the knowledge that prisons her brother, who had provided are no longer insanitary torture the pistol, and left chambers as they were with-slayer at liberty.
panting "tebub, tohab," as it jin the memory of men still living), has made the public indifferent about farther reforms
the aged
MEDICAL REPORT.
Relation of Pneumonia to Alcohol.
elaborata
moves.
The other mountain, which started thirty years ago before the jazz ara-has advanced very gradually, only fifty feet.
For this reason a modification of our pecal system that has now
Another geological disturbance been at work in Birmingham for
reminiscent of biblical times is three years has not attracted
reported at Abia, near Bars,) much outside interest. Early in
where the earth suddenly 1919 the Birmingham justices re-
swallowed up an entire village solved to safeguard themselves, In the current issue of the without leaving a trace. Pions against sending to prison any Journal of the American Medical Arabs point the same moral as the mental defectives. What percent Association there is reported an Jews at Sodom saying the age to convicts are mental defec- tives it is difficult to discover, be covering eight years, four of them aying their prayers regularly and careful study, villagers were punished for not cause our knowledge of insanity, before prohibition and two of them and for other sins. especially in its milder forms, is after it, of the pneumonia pat still so slight, but the very lowest ients received and treated at the figure suggested is 3 per cent. The Cook County Hospital Chicago.. Report of the Prison Commis- The investigation sioners for 1921-22 mentions 85 have been made in a paraly Beamą, to
cases of persons certified as de-scientific
way. not to prove fective while serving their sensay theory already entertained, ence. Dr. Hamblin Smith, the but to ascertain the facts, as to medical officer at Birmingham the relation between this par Prison, declares that actually ticular disease and the use of imbeciles* are sometimes con-alcoholic bever ages.
victed,
STOPPING A SCANDAL.
A MURDERER'S CHOICE.
First Asked for Death but Changed Mind.
Ferry, aged 20, a native of Spain, Canton, Obio-Jose Fernanded
There is nothing very sen Elizabeth Rich, decided to serve confessed murderer of Mrs. sational in the knowledge gained, the rest of his-natural life in the The Birmingham justices, to that the total abstainers bad when the choice was given him but the tables presented show State Penientiary at hard labour put a stop to such scandals in measurably better chance of re-hare to-day of life imprisonment their courts, obtained at the covery than the moderate users or death in the electric chair. prison the services of a whole- and the latter a better one than time doctor, expert in the study the beavy drinkers, the difference the history of the State that say It is probably the first time in of mind, and they also secured being closely proportioned to the first degree murderer has had the occasional services, as court amount of alcohol consumed. doctor, of a private specialist, The mortality of the abstainers demanded death as his fate, bat such a choice. At first Feny Since than every case that ap-was 22.45, of the moderates 34.4later, after a conference with his peare to the magistrates as in and of the excessives 4987. There attorneys, elected to take the life any way requiring investigation were 1,095 cases in the first group sentence, is submitted to ona or other of and 1,443 in the third, a total of these doctors. The Court either 2,538, with a total mortality of Court imposed the condition that In pronouncing sentence the remands in custody without bail, 1.105. directing that the charged person that of the abstainers, its total anniversary of his crime each If the mortality bad been beginning on the morning of the shall be committed to the special would have been 665. "In other year he shall spend an entire place of detention provided for worde," says the report, "439 of month in solitary confinement. the purpose of observation by these deaths can be attributed to
Mrs. Rich and a three-year-old
the medical officer, or it remande the use of alchol in moderate or son, Dan, were shot and killed; on bail for examination (with the excessive quantities.". consent of the charged person)
by the court doctor. At the end
Peter Rich. another son, aged 13, wounded in the leg, and her husband, Dan Rich, beaten and
ROBBED IN ELEVATOR.
of the remand period the case that come before the Birmingham slashed by Ferry, who invaded comes up and the doctor con-magistrates, and it cannot be said the Rich home on the night of cerned gives evidence.
The report on the scheme for the country's legal work.
to touch at all the whole bulk of December 30 last in a jealous 1921-22 states that 135 cases is a beginning, and when it has intimacy with Mrs. Rich-- 1. But it rege as a climax to his confessed were brought under it, of which extended, as it will, the Birming Times. 60 were dismissed or adjourned, ham magistrates will be honoured 30 were sent to prison, 17 were as pioneers. certified as insane, 10 were In his view, based on many certified under the Mental Deficiency Act. 1913, 10 were tine, the country should be divid- years' experience of convict rou- placed on probation, two were fed into convenient districts each fined, three were bound over, and with properly equipped pri siree are still pending. In the son with a special medical officer
Salesman Loses $100,000 previous years 161 and 151 cases in charge, to which all cases
in Diamonds. were dealt with. On the whole requiring mental examination about one quarter of the cases should be sent, irrespective of New York diamond salesman bas Chicago:-Henry C. Hart, & were sent to prison, and Dr. the particular prison to which reported to the police that he had Hemblin Smith, while not sug the general body of prisoners been robbed by two armed men of gesting that the other three-from any country or district is $100,000 worth of diamonds in a quarters would in the ordinary committed. It is unreasonable to down-town building. way have been sentenced, yet either party to expect this work, claimed with some confidence which is highly specialised and operator from the cage at the The robbers threw the elevator & considerable proportion takes much time, to be done by a sixth floor, he told the police, would." His method he described; in these words:-
part time medical officer, who is end, with Hart a prisoner, usually busy local practitioner mounted several floors higher with no special knowledge of in the building at 130 North State mental diseases.
street. They stopped the elevator,
that
THE METHOD.
At the prison we have a male and & female remand-department, which travelling examiners in revolvers, took his satchel of Another plan is suggested by and, menacing, him with their epecially fitted tp. Theas depart- ments are quite distinct from the each district would attend where-diamonds, Hart said, and left him prisca proper, and they are or ever they were required. This on an upper floor.
plan (actually in force in Illinois) ranged and worked as far as
It developed that Hart was possible on "bospital lines," the improves on the first by avoid making his call on the jewellry idea of prison being kept out of ing commitment to prison, and firm in response to telephone sight. My plan is to allow the observation enjoyed under the believe, was sent by the bandita.
loses the advantages of close message, and this, the police: first few days to pass by with only first. Administrative difficulties general conversation wish. the
patient, unless an attempt is to be attend, of course, upon the put- made to see if analysis is likely plans. But such difficulties are
ting into practice of either of thas to prove useful. Then, towards;
WORLD DANCING RECORD-
OF 130-HOURS. Youngstown, Ohio, April 28.---
the end of the remand period, at serious if there is a strong Albert Kiss tonight established suitable time can be arranged for feeling that they ought to be new world record by dancing 130 a formal examination with "ment- overcome..
bours and was still dancing late One may expect that this Birm-to-night. He tied bells to his The patient thus has time to beingham experiment will become feet to keep himself awake, come accustomed to his surround-niversal, and that its scope will
al tests" if thought desirable.
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