Show JAIL INMATES SEE HANGING Two Tro Hundred Prisoners Are Forced to Attend Legal Execution in iii Chicago A reversion to the mediaeval conception con ion of or punishment t a and ad d correction Is Warden George A A. Storrs Storrs' charac- charac of or the tho act of or Sheriff Peters of or Chicago who compelled OO prisoners prison prison- ers Inmates of 0 the Cook county Jail J to view the hanging of 0 na In that cH city yesterday morning Sheriff Sherler Peters contends that the sl sight ht of ot the hanging Ins frightens alt all criminal l instincts out of 0 the convicts and Issued a statement in which he blamed the recent increase In rime to the thc sympathetic attention paid the prisoners by women reformers I Warden arden Storrs last night said said- I I I have never believed In maudlin senti sentiment ment nor permitted It to Influence m my I conduct toward prisoners I think a I should be made to work h hard rd and s1 ii-s1 should uld be treated according to his I degree of or intelligence and with re regards regards ro- ro attitude But gards ards to his personal convicts con aro human beings and when we lose sight of this fact tact wo work counter to the Intention of ot Imprisonment Imprisonment Imprison ImprIson- ment and the thc best Interests of or society You cannot scare a man Into being a l good man He ma may refrain retrain from crime from fear so long Ions as that fear fearIs Is Immediate But remove tho time In Influence In- In fluence and Immediately you ou have o a a. criminal a I thousand times worse than on originally nally Tho stocks did not deter crime Capital punishment for petty potty larceny larcen made no appreciable difference e In the number of or such offenses I place the tho action n of Sheriff Peters In tho the same Bamo category as 8 similar punishments of or mediaeval times time There Thero may have havo been and undoubtedly undoubtedly edly were some vcr very young boys un under under un- un der sentence for minor crimes In the tho Cook county Jail The Inhuman practice tice tico of ot forcing them to view an execution execution exe exe- cution as a matter of punishment was onas an unwarranted unfairness to the pus prig arid and to the man executed Warden Varden Storrs believes that popular popular popular lar opinion will prevent a repetition of or such action |