Show I lenience Suspended Mrs Susan Parry recently convicted of pcrjnry in the First District Court appeared for sentence yesterday morning morn-ing The lady it seems went before the Grand Jury last winter and gave evidence in the case of her husband Jos Parry which was being investigated investi-gated at that time and during the course of the examination she testified that her youngest child was about 3 years old while in reality it was onl 2 years old She also made a mistake in giving the age of her eldest child For the false statement in relation to the age of her youngest child she was indicted for perjury The evidence pro duced on the trial was so evenly divided thai it was rather difficult for a disin terested person to say whether or not the lady had willully made the misstatement mis-statement for the purpose of screening her husband from a prosecution for un lawful cohabitation The jury however how-ever decided that she was guilty as charged and while the nnhlip rHrt not censure the verdict it felt that by the I I conviction tho ends of justice had been fully satisfied The sufferiug of the lady during the progress of the trial was intense and filled every one with pity and there was not one person who cared to express an opinion on the sub ject who did not ttyinu sentence in the case should be suspended The implacable and relentless I cutor however saw in the convictio j the poor woman an opportunity of aj plying the mental thumbscrews an bringing her husband who was in seclusion seclu-sion before the court for trial Accord I ingly he proclaimed through the court that it Mr Parry should present himself before the court for triai the sentence of Mrs Parry might be suspended A short time ago Mr Parry appeared in the court and plead to an indictment Yesterday when Mrs Parry appeared the court announced that as the costs in the case had been paid sentence the perjury case would ba suspeuded This ends another chapter in the history of this rather remarkable case I It to the appears noniudicial mind a rather pculiar proceeding to enter into a bargain with a person who has been convicted of a felony that if another person who is charged only with a misdemeanor will come forward for trial the one charged with the more serious offense will be set free By what method of reasoning such a con sumation may be reached will probaLly remain the secret of the wily prosecu tor who sprung it upon the public |