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Show THE SHERIFF HALTS. A spasm of belated virtue seems to have come upon Sheriff Emery. He gloried in the marriage of a convicted thief to a murderous prostitute, answering an-swering brazenly that he authorized it and assumed all the responsibility. And yet, when a man Is held on the charge of criminal Intimacy with a girl who is under the age of consent, and with whose aid he accomplished the ruin of another young woman who is yet willing will-ing to marry him, the Sheriff refuses his consent. Probably the Sheriff is right In refusing re-fusing to allow the marriage in their case. But the only reason he refuses Is, Judging by his moral obliquity in the precedent case, that neither of the applicants for the marriage license is yet convicted of any crime or misdemeanor. misde-meanor. After conviction, should there be anything to convict them of, Sheriff Emery would be most happy to further fur-ther the wedding, and thus blazen his defiance to an astonished and disgusted ' community. That Is, while the persons seeking marriage are yet unconvicted, they must not marry, for fear that the ceremony cere-mony would prevent their conviction. But after the trial, when the parties are fully :roved to be criminals, then the Sheriff would be most happy to oblige them, and start them on their-' career of populating the world with other criminals yet unborn. But what .a revolting doctrine It lsl |