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Show Meanwhile, the Crime Wave Of course, there should be liberality in respect of application appli-cation for freedom, but what do you think of a state maintaining main-taining a board of officials to consider cases like these? At San Quentin prison, the California State Board of Prison directors will, shortly, consider parole for two applicants appli-cants of especial interest, amongst the 53 offering themselves. them-selves. About ten years ago, the husband of Mrs. Chona Andrade :ield one Jesus Espinoza while she branded his forhead with i red hot stove poker, saturated him with coal oil and roast-;d roast-;d him alive. She would like to be let free on good behavior. The second case of particular interest is that of John Moss. Mr. Moss became a convict, less than ten years ago. He had become jealous of a San Jose woman, fired her house and roasted her two little children to death. He petitions to be returned to the ordinary social life. It is fair to state that wither Mrs. Andrade nor Mr. Moss petitions to be supplied evith matches and cans of coal oil upon release. The applications appli-cations for parole are, simply, based upon the recommendation recommenda-tion of a period of good behavior while locked up. However, perhaps newspaper comment on such cases is not wholly wise policy. The fact that this pair can even have lope of freedom may be encouraging to would-be murderers. When the social machinery provides hope of release for folks who burn others alive, there may be some little encouragement encourage-ment in it to the ordinary gunman, who blows the citizen's brains out for his watch, 30 cents, or other valuables he may, or may not have on him. |
