Show t w WAY r T f J TIGE I k mr HIT IN REPORT Wickersham lck Body Blames J Steps in Prosecution for 1 I Many Dismissals i LY LYLE C. C WILSON J Br WASHINGTON June 9 UP UP- UP too many way sta- sta Belief there the ere route are to justice ashes is evident tl on the latest of the Wick Wicker Wicker- r- r hout reports which r I prosecutions I e With Uh us tables present the plc- plc n criminals criminal's progress toward trig tat or of a At every cry 5 step P he finds I 1 bans or of C through action of J 1 or his agent or the cc themselves that will strike the obin obin ob- ob thins thing ot e in looking at these tables report is I the large number ajI the steps or stages into to toI which g ferent on is 15 or may be I the l large number of wa ways y s 's b by b y d th prosecution may be a GIVES RECORD knack for apt nomenclature a Jt with always associated with official tot commission ascribes att Means rt r the te In this respect as morI mor record the he indicative of the I mortality of prosecuting end en en- d dearer dear tOr e why so ro many steps asks the sur- sur fer why wr-why why so ro complicated a system 1 la In the breath it warns against 4 acceptance of its Us own owna Siny other statistics They should a any conservatively and l' l be be te very aUy interpreted 1 If the number of ot In- In 4 prosecutions seems outrageously prosecution 1 But th the commission warns the differences dif dif- t es existing might be as as compatible court com cour- Ube te with the conclusion that an excessive e number of innocent persons per per- sons roIlS were ure arrested as with the conclusion cont con con- t that an excessive number of persons escaped punishment Cincinnati attorney I Alfred Bettman neT ney made the analysis of existing s of or criminal justice relating to p prosecution CRITICISES SYSTEM Something is 15 wrong he wrote I an administration which for formy emery ertry prosecutions which it be- be 1 cbs s ob obtains a conviction for tor the of offense of- of of-I of tear ret char charged ed in only four or five u IS in to New York or Chicago or even eveni even evenI I 17 b Cincinnati The drop from the thea a on original number of prosecutions to 4 the number of convictions of the of- of d 4 f feu charged cannot be dogmatically t interpreted but it clearly justifies the Ai conclusion that the s system stem as a whole t I 1 is not an au efficient one 1 Hellman found conditions In Mil Mn- Milwaukee vv waukee kee and to some extent in Balti Balti- Baltimore more relatively more efficient than thanIn J In la ether other areas for which statistics j 4 fete rere available Notable in this cons con con- s is 15 the fact that Milwaukee h hAs eliminated one of the way sta- sta the grand Jury I I |