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Show WILL PUNISH PERJURERS. I Judge Maurice T. Dooling, who pre j Sides over the federal district court at j San Francisco, has sentenced a woman I to ten months in jail for the crime of perjury, and the district attorney has announced his intention of prosecuting all perjurers without regard to sex. This decision is said to have been reached because be-cause so many women go before the l n i te-i States commissioner and federal grand jury and swear falsely, particularly particu-larly in the white slave cases. We know of no good reason why a woman who perjures herself should not be punished just the same as a man. There is entirely en-tirely too much false swearing, and it is not by any means confined to white slave cases. It was the opinion of Walter Wal-ter I. Smith of Iowa, who became a federal judge after long service upon the bench in the Hawkeye state, that there never was a case in court without perjury upon one side or the other, and generally upon both. Perhaps the state- j ment was too sweeping. At the same time it is highly probable there would be very much less litigation and more justice meted out if there were a few convictions for perjury in the lower courts by way of a warning. |