Show J M Meddling With Justi Justice e J o oHE o fHE HE ways ways of the the- law are devious and hard tl to understand The layman assumes that the law is no respecter of persons and concludes con con- chides that men committing similar offenses will be gi n similar punishment But the record runs contrary to this Just the other day the absurdity of f the situation was as presented presented pre pre- in the news columns Cache Gache county sent L Le Grand Jones J t to trial I In on n charge of f manslaughter Th The prosecution prosecution tion lion followed an tn automobile accident last December December De De- cember in which tw two companions of the defendant defendant defendant de de- de- de were killed The man on trial was driving the car r at the time of the accident nt and narrowly escaped ith ith his hs life Perhaps he took unnecessary y chances at it the wh wheel el but bt I there is nothing to to show that his comp companions entered objections to riding with him r r the same day in Salt Lake bake county the district i attorney sought and obtained t the e dismissal dismissal dis dis- dis- dis missal of a manslaughter charge against Harry HarryA A i. i tL Larson growing out of an automobile acc accident acci- acci I dent which occurred a year ago In ln this this' c case s se it U will be Lola Player 6 6 years e rs old was was wa struck by a a speeding automobile automo- automo automo automo- bil bile Il an on the Redwood road and killed The The Thed d driver of the car ar did not stop to render aid aidS S to tb the victim but speeded speed d away awty V His car was traced to a local garage and Larson Carson was arrested He denied that he was in the death leath c car r at the time of the accident find and his connection with the accident nt was was est established only when his woman companion admitted that she was with Larson when the child was struck Larson made his p peace ce with the father o othe of the little victim vho who wrote the district attorn attorney attorney S n ney y that hat he was convinced that his daughters daughter's death was ws accidental In consequence the district attorn attorneys attorney's ys office asked the court to dismiss the manslaughter charge pending a against Larson How long will our people remain indifferent indifferent indifferent ferent S to meddling with the cause of of justice S Why do they condone dismissal of a case 0 j in which there was a flagrant effort to escape responsibility and nd send another man man to trial wh where here re the hazards of the accident were morer more r or f less a accepted by the victims Why m make ke fish of one and fowl of another The settlement settle settle- rn merit ment nt ac accepted by the father of the Player girt girl iS should have flave no bearing on the the- criminal crimin l action ti ti n fl which w was s not an offense against one family but against society as a whole S Vh s What t the are laws for Why pay exor to m maintain a a. a police power when allots efforts m may be by a private settlement out of court Bac Back in the old days before the advent and order to Western Vestern frontiers individuals individuals indi indi- settled their own They f it out each for himself and nd there was wa i J- J no law lav to stop the hostilities Each sought his accounting and ind nd obtained it in the degree of S his is ability with shooting irons The code was general It applied to all an alike In these days the pe penalties of of the law are often escaped through one means or or another r. r But just jest as is ft n t they y are arc demanded so that the law is rapidly deteriorating into so something ething which is is Stayed r and determined by the he influence of the transgressor |