Show Iii I FAILURE OF JUSTICE i I That our criminal laws are not always 555 what they should be in operation has again been illustrated that is to say if our criminal laws are intended for the S punishment of the guilty The Christmas LI Christ-mas issue of THE HERALD contained the announcement of the dismissal fth suit against one Rill charged with the I I I embezzlement of 10000 from his wife t whom he deserted two orthree cars 1 ago Mrs Hill told a reporter that she J J Jirid received 4000 of winch sum 1000 S j went to her lawyer Thus she comes 1 p out of the fight 7000 short which Ii amount Hill is ahead lessKs lawyers i fees but justice is defeated and the lawS I law-S turned into a farce The facts vof this case seems to have been about as follows I r fol-lows Hill married the welltodo 5 widow and vhether or not be then Jiad designs upon her bank accbunt heatS heat-S I lenst succeeded in capturing the latter and with it deserted his wife and the I t Territory depositing his illgotten r t money in a Michigan bank beyond the t reach of the local courts Jhe was arrested I f i Lroneht ba k and being unable to S Ii 1 get bondsmen apil unwilling to leave t t stolen with the f the money that he had t court as security for his appearance i when wanted for trial he has nominally J been in jail all these months A trial or two failed to convict and now by a1 II compromise outside the courts he has been discharged If this isnt defeating justice and turning thelaw into afarce 1 the public prosecutoriwill i please inform J us what it is As we understandthe 1 t law it did not know1Ifrs Hill in this 1z i prosecution except as the victim of vher t J husbands seornidralism if he were j guilty of stealing Ivejr money the surrender S j sur-render of a portionor all 6 itdid not 1 I make him less guilty the prosecution I was not instituted for the purpose of S making him disgorge f or the law does not if I contemplate its application for any such S S object any more than it expects to be I l H used to aid personal spites 3 1 TIlE HERALD has no personal fight I against the man Hill but it doesnt like to see the law used I tt and abused as it has been in this 5 I i prosecution If he werent guilty of the 1 embezzlemen charged he should not I have been arrested brought Ack here 5 S I and kept in jail if he were guilty i 5 I and the law was1 not explicit or S strong enough in his case to punish F pun-ish him regularly he should not have it 11Ii Ii been restrained as he has been I I I it all this time if he did take the money as alleged and that act was a crime before S S I fore the law the return of the amount t 1 or the givingof ten times the sum tot S to-t the injured woman cannot make him S S less guilty betore the law The prosecutor I prose-cutor knows this is true and his consent con-sent to the dismissal of the case is in 1 S Qpen 4 defiance of his plain duty t in the k premises which was to prpsecute the guilty regardless of the trading the relenting and the purchase outside i out-side of court The thieves would S all be happy if they could buyS buy-S I I their freedom by the return to their victims twofifths the stolen property S indeed if prosecuting attorneys will be as kind and considerate in all cases as S t in thisone embezzlers will be willing to 5 enter into an agreement with thecourts L55 f to return even half of the stolen money S ii 5 1 in all cases without putting the government I d govern-ment to the expense of making arrests P I I and instituting prosecutiQns 4 I |