Show A hole in kansas lair kan july 30 special B P waggoner announces thata he will on monday present a petition to united states judge foster asking that arthur lett a state prisoner in the kansas penitentiary he released lett ia a young colored man who was sent to prison for seducing a girl under 18 years of age A recent statute provid s that such a seduction shall be regarded as rape and the offender shall be punished bv confinement at hard labor the crimes act says a felony shall be punished by at hard labor in the penitentiary the act making letts offense offence a crime omits the words in the penitentiary this discrepancy mr claims will release lett from the penitentiary and the severest punishment that can be inflicted is imprisonment in the county bailhe quotes the well known principle of law that statutes relating to crimes shall be construed strictly if the court releases lett on the p it will practically dis bharga from the prison or pris boners in for other of fences whose sentences are authorized by sections of the lav which omit the words in the penitentiary tent iary mr waggoner is a lawyer of recognized ability and says he doea not apply to state court because it would not be the policy of a state court to make a decision tbt would set at liberty nearly all the prisoners in the penitentiary tent iary |