Show I I i I iI i DISCOURAGING CRIME t JUDGE T ARMSTRONG seems de dc determined determined J to discourage the hold holdup holdup holdup up industry in Salt Lake Luke City On Monday he h sentenced Will VilI Gentry Gantry a young ayoung man mast who assisted in holding up U a street r ct oar r ro conductor o ductor and later Inter another citizen to serve twenty years In the penitentiary for each offense As the sentences are arc areto to run lUI concurrently concu however Gentry will serve only twenty years less Tess al ai allowances allowances for good behavior We believe most people will agree however that this is long enough es especially es in view of or the fact that it was Gentrys first offense It will be bo agreed too that the sentence s given Gentry should sh uld have the widest possible publicity publicity publicity city for it will have a deterrent effect on other instinctive or actual criminals Let the tIme news go out among the crim criminal criminal inal classes that if they are caught at their th lr unlawful callings in Salt Lake they are liable to spend a considerable portion of their life in prison It has hns been een said that prison sentences ces do not prevent crime If this were true the money spent in the i ance of penitentiaries would be money wasted It is not true however 11 0 ever Many Manya Ma Maa a man has hn been prevented through fear of the law from committing crimes Few Pew men indeed with the tho certainty certaInty certainty of or punishment before them are guilty of offenses offense against the law There are exceptions but this is the t e general genend rule The criminal nearly n al always alwa always ways wa s believes he lie will be the man than who will get off oft without punishment The communities that are fret freest from lawbreakers are the communities in which the occasional lawbreaker is punished There is a sort of free mas inns masonry onry among criminals by which news Is disseminated with the t c greatest rap rapidity rapIdity They know the tho towns that are arc safe to work ork the towns they thy hud had best steer clear of Twenty years ears in prison for a first I offense may mily nm seem to the average observer observer observer ver an exceedingly heavy punishment It is Isa a heavy punishment but it is ex cx exemplary as a well as punitive in char character character character acter In civil law there t ere are damages known as ae exemplary damages They are arc awarded on occasions when hen it seems necessary to sound soun a warning Tho The fate fute of o Gentry will be a alesson lesson and anda a warning that may keep other young b men maca outside of prison cells |