Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-18 | Page 12 | Crying Need for Reforms

S 'S I Crying Need i for Reforms J I and the Midwest arc are justifiably S V 1 in a white beat heat of indignation over the crime of the slaying and mutilating of oC year old Dorothy Schneider of Flint The country is shocked to learn that the brutal murderer Adolph 47 is a achurch achurch achurch church deacon and father lather of five cl children I He Ie bad been engaged in the col contracting busin business busi busi- n ness known in his home town as an tn exemplary exemplary exem exem- pi plary citizen r Yet Vet et police declare he has contested con coo tested jested to 0 crimes against a children over a period of 01 two years Similarly in inthe the horrible and slaying of little Marian rian Parker in lo Los An An- Ed Hickman the perpetrator was shown to be a t youth who formerly had bad held places r t leadership r and honor among his fel fellows eI- eI 10 lows au 14 had bad engaged prominently in religious ious lotus activities Then came his degeneracy into into-a into a life of crime The cases possess similarities though the Hickman Hidman case is b filled with greater reater cunning and elements clements of the sensational But both In ill their shocking gruesomeness point unmistakably unmistakably unmistakably to lessons that America Ameria must awaken to co concerning arnin the reign of crime These two outrages too diabolical to believe be lieve possible Ne in a a civilized a age e. e are helping to 10 startle the whole nation into a realization of tf the menacing proportions crime has w as as- Persons of pf fiendish criminal characteristics charac commit startling crimes the public Is b momentarily y shocked then forgets while shy shy- shyster ster stet lawyers weak wuk prosecutors pampering courts sob sisters and pardon boards get d rn in bt their deplorable ork nork Justice fails falls Il miserably miser ably thus encouraging tho those of criminal bent Such Sith shocking crimes a as those of Los Angeles An An- jd geles cIes and Flint Aint should leave leate no doubt that Americas America's treatment of crime b b falling short critically The answer most certainly is b not lynching Crime cannot annot be cured Iy ness nes m Our form of justice mm must mint be te allowed to take its cOU course C a against the lo Lob LoL and Leo teo paId Hickmans and Hotelling but ht when ben benour our criminal system shows s sure evidences of decay it ifs is s time to demand chanted changed of crime The f recent ent cases caCS of kid and mutilating of Utile little girls are object lessons Iut out for drastic reforms in ia the matter of police prosecuting and too judicial attacks on crim crime S