Show TO RECKLESS BI CYCLISTS laws law are made only for those tho who are morally and mentally Mea tally deficient follow following ing it in an extract from the editorial columns of an english paper which would be a good thing for tome some of our american scorchers chers to paste in their hats hate criminal liability for or the reckless riding of 0 a bicycle was wa visited with a sentence of four our months hard labor in recent english case care of rein re 0 in against parker which was tried at lewes assizes the defendant wa was 6 charged in an indictment with manslaughter and also tor for driving Inga a carriage or vehicle contrary to section 35 of the offenses against the person act of 1861 the gen sentence tence was imposed upon a plea of guilty to the leond indictment this plea pica was accepted although the prosecution considered that a conviction for manslaughter would be supported the law journal quotes mr air justice haw kins as a saying that the counsel tor for the prosecution had very mercifully asked only tor for a conviction onan on an indictment to 0 o which the pris loner was ire ready ady to plead lead guilty and that he was glad that some one had thought fit to put the law in motion and let those who are care less let and reckless of the lives of others other know that they were punishable by the law the justice also said that a man or woman who rides a is bound to conduct it with care and caution and no more entitled to ride recklessly and furiously furlon sly than to drive a cart at a furious pace through the street laws law or ordinances on this subject as on all others are made only for those who are either cither mentally or clr morally deficient and not for those who are arc intelligent and conscientious enough not to need them the interesting and innocent party who for time whereof the memory of man not noi to the contrary has been carrying a gun and did not know it was loaded has now exchanged it bor or a wheel arid and his big works do follow hirn him ills victim Is often a a follow fellow wheelman but more often it Is an elderly lady or a small child municipal authorities have in many places tailed failed to check the increase of these crimes in other places the authorities have been more effective to make the law on the subject plain to the limited comprehension of ol 01 scorchers chers a few convictions of manslaughter will probably be necessary |