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Show Tut: Ijegal A'tirs, a Chicago paper, favors the abolition of the grand jury system and the preliminary examination examina-tion of criminal cases by tho courts, which are generally much better fitted for the task than the ordinary jurors drawn from the body of th eiiioe. Th9 Keics, among other reasons for the proposed chauge, gives the following: fol-lowing: Under lii grand jury nystorn, how many mou who were eniirHy innucni't of the crimq with which tboy have bsun ciiarg'.-d, bflcau) thoy were untMn to j( t hu.il, havo remain'," in rnoritlH, and sometimes yoari, awaiting trial, who, if thny could have rnt their unixw-rt face to face n a preliminary exflriiinnti'.n. would have heen able to hnva n-muvod all suspicion, and nhown tlmt, Die eliHrjcs wero m'!e lli rough malice ami without foundation. |