Show f I fO WBONG1D BY CARELESSNESS Itis a great deal easier to do a wrong than it is tb make reparation for the wrong done Newspaper readers will recall among the telegrams of a few weeks ago a dispatch saying that the Adams Express Company had missed from its Philadelphia office a package cjntaiuing 30000 and that a clerk naiI d Math Pratt had beay arrest don d-on the charge of stealing the money The judge fixed the bail bond at 15000 a sum which it was impossible for the clerk to raise hence the poor fellow was sent to prison Millions of people read the item and in their minds convicted Pratt of theft Since then thewire have said nothing about the affair but from a Pittsburg paper we learn that the package of money instead of being sent to Shamokin Pa where ibe J longedvwas placed in the wrong safe and sent to Iowa whence it has been retarded to the owner Pratt being re leas d The clerk had ubsulutelj nothing to do with the moneyone of he officials of the company having been J guilty of the carelessness which caned the trouble but Pratt has suf f red an1 nust suffei t J the end of hi s days ther Obloquy and disgrace Out < thehuudred who read of the theft perhapsnot more than one will learn of vindication i The theory of the law is that the ai cued is innocertt until proven guilty the assumption of the public istha i i the accused guilty until proven innocent inno-cent and the public is a good deal more powerful in this matter than the law Detectives can readily blast an innocent pans character it not stnd him to the gallows and not n few peisons have beerihounded to madness and disgrace bv false accusers or by the suspicion aroused by the malice of the wicked |