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Show A GOOD THING TO QUIT. Wo trust Hint Judge Brown of the Juvenile court will reconsider his determination de-termination to continue to hold such examinations as that of the Knox girl. It Is ono thing to hold physical examinations exam-inations that aro necessitated by ailment, ail-ment, accident, or disease, and quite another and wholly different thing to hold them for the purposo of obtaining obtain-ing evidence in a criminal case, or to establish a criminal charge. In the first case the dictates of humanity, the necessity for medical or surgical treatment for the -welfare or to save the life of the patient, requires that the nature of the affliction be ascertained In order to know what to do for It; In the other, there Is an Invasion under perverted and vicious pretense of legality legal-ity of the personal rJght3 of the accused, ac-cused, far more Indecent nnd obnoxious obnox-ious than it would be were nn accused to be forcibly compelled to testify against himself when charged with misdemeanor or crime. In the first caso, no Interposition of any sort of legal process Is required; any sane person submits to the ordeal, In order that the required remedy may be applied. In the second case, a court that would force any one to such a humiliating hu-miliating and degrading ordeal not only Invades the personal sanctities, but throws down the barriers that ages have reared for the legal protection of human rights and the inviolability of the person. Such procedure contrary con-trary to the law as expounded in all courts, and Is In effect a revival of brutal and deadly practices of the mid-.dle mid-.dle ages; it Is a form of torture, designed de-signed to extort confession from an accused ac-cused who persistently denies tho crime charged. That baleful revival will not be tolerated tol-erated In this day and age In an enlightened en-lightened community. Its Institution here would be In effect to establish a school of indecency, as obnoxious to moral sensibilities as it Is to the law. Under that sort of practice, no girl Is safe; an evil-minded enemy could falsely charge her with wrongdoing and destroy her life by bringing her before be-fore this court nnd forcing her to this atrocious torture. In the end, this practice would be sure to catch thc-wrong thc-wrong person somo time, and the business busi-ness would be apt to end in a tragedy, and come to a close that would be a public horror. We, therefore, trust that In so far as Judge Erown may contemplate con-template a continuance of such examinations exami-nations ns this, which has stirred tho city to a depth perhaps not realized by him, he will abandon that purpose, peremptorily and at once. |