Show Ii THE NEWSPAPERS are all savagely assaulting Dukes the Pennsylvania slanderer and seducer of women and murderer of men and the jury that acquitted him There is nothing noth-ing improper in saying hard things of Dukes and the jurors Indeed nothing too severe can be said of Such men But it seems not to have occurred to anybody to say anything any-thing about the system that makes a verdict both possible and probable i like this The law demands in a case mands that the jury be male uplof Honest and rogues or ignoramuses the intelligent men cannot get upon jury The murder committee by Dukes was most notorious in all its i details as was the cause which led 1 to it The facts were telegraphed all over the country the particulars Salt the people in being familiar to must have been Lake as they to those in the county where the deed was perpetrated A strictly legal jury for the trial of the case l could not have been obtained among the Intelligent men of this city 3COO miles from the scene of the killing Ignorant people wh do not read the newspapers or who are incapable in-capable of opinions must hare been taken for triers or else scoundrels who would perjure themselves to clear their friend or obtain his money Where is there a man of brains capable of sitting in judgment judg-ment in the case but has heard of it andwho has not formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence inno-cence of Dukes The jury system rattier than the jurors themselves are responsible for such miscarriages of justice When our jury laws are amended so as to allow intelligent honest men to try cases like that of Dukes there will bo fewer escapes of the guilty |