Show Too Much Jy THAT p AT juries are still t to c consider women criminals crim crim- j apart from the law is evidenced in tho case of or Ursula Broderick who vho has just been en sentenced to ten years years' imprisonment for slaying her stepfather It was the tho lightest penalty that could be imposed under the tho verdict verdict ver ver- dict returned by tho the jury which changed tho the charge from murder in tho the first degree to maJ manslaughter Ursula is but 16 years of ago age but she has two notches on her gun having killed her f father ther four years ago and her St stepfather last year ear She won her release by by show show- in jug she shot in defense of or her mother In her second trial for murder it was proven pro she shot her stepfather while he was sleeping The case in itself is not ono one inclined inclined in in- to arouse sympathy for the tho prisoner Tho The jury no doubt hesitated to inflict a man mans man's s 's punishment punishment pun pun- on this slip of a girl although she had bad twice proven herself capable of capital crimes crime With Villi the tile first crime crimo hanging over ocr him a man in tho samo same position position si- si tion would havo have forfeited his hie life Juries which base their findings on sex sei distinctions forget tho the higher duties of or citizenship The Broderick verdict is not an isolated one similar action is habitual in juries com composed of men We wonder if a jury composed of women would have ha been as merciful to one ono of their kind |