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THE CHINA MAIL, JANU

DOCTOR'S SENSAT

Wants Sex Criminals If Guilty They Would Be Gassed While In Court

Dr. H. M. Stephenson, a Dorset country doctor who thinks brutal crime should be punished with brutality or even death, declared in an aston- ishing speech, at Dorchester, that lethal cham- bers should adjoin all Assize Courts. The chambers would be installed to execute per- sons of continuous criminal habits or guilty of sex crime.

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Dr. Stephenson, who was debat, violence, was perfectly sane but ing that "The leniency with which found great difficulty in controlling crime is treated nowadays is be-his impulses. coming a menace to law-abiding He was last sent to gaol for 18 citizens," attacked "people who months. "You might as well give a think that soppiness with a tiger 18 months and expect it to criminal pays.”

cease to be a tiger when it came There seemed to be a growing out," said the doctor. idea; he said, that if one sweet and gentle enough to a thug, he would shed a few tears and cease to be a thug. A greater

To deal with such cases by pri- mistake could hardly be made. son is wrong." For crimes of vio- He spoke of the hopelessly delence there should be flogging, praved class of criminal, one of which was cruel but effective. whom he knew has spent 13 years Dr. Stephenson said he would not in prison, though he was only 28. punish recidivists and sex perverts. This man, guilty of a crime of He would say to them, "I am sorry.

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Bringing Up Father

DAUGHTER-I'LL BE GLAD WHEN MAGGIE GETS THROUGH WITH JURY DUTY- ALL ME FRIENDS WILL BE IN JAIL IF SHE REMAINS THERE ANY LONGER-

SO WILLI- MOTHER IS

GETTING AWFULLY CRANKY-

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FOR GOODNESS SAKE-WHAT'S UP-MAGGIE ? DID YOU HAVE

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