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Show HE IS THE COCKT. Judge Lanry .Will Deal Out Justice as He 1 Sees Fit-Justice Fit-Justice Lauey is not in the best of humor when he speaks about the criticisms criti-cisms of his method of dealing with prisoners as published by the morning papers. To a mim up a very low tree, one of the officials at the city hail says, it looks as though criticism for failure to convict is misapplied; "It is an infrequent thing," remarked this personage, "to see a man against whom suspicion properly rests, leave the court without paying a fine or being sentenced to jail. I havo even thought the judge was rather more severe than otherwise. Certainly nobody cm consistently con-sistently say he is- too lenient. If the police fail to get evidence to show a person's bad reputation or actions, I don't see how the judge can justly be blamed for turning him loose. The police will have their hands full taking care of their own work properly. When they arrest a man the mere fact, of their arrest should not be taken as sufficient ground for conviction." "Iwant to say," Judge Laney declared de-clared later, 'that the name of tho judge of this court is H. S. Laney, and so long as he occupies the position he shall administer justice as seems right in his eyes. I may not be here for more than a day, but on that day I am going to do what I think is right and not follow any plan laid down by anybody any-body else." |