Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-24 | Page 4 | "Private Affairs"

I- I PRIVATE AFFAIRS TOW and then the public is Inform Informed bythe by bythe Lx NOW the police that there will be no prosecution prosecution prosecution tion in cases which have been settled out of cour court by the interested rested parties Thus in the case where a young wife admitted she poisoned her husband it was blandly announced that there would be no prosecution because the husband declined tobe tobe to tobe be a complaining witness This was taken by authorities to mean Justification n of ot the release of the lady who mixed something besides water with her husbands husband's coffee ac according according according ac- ac cording to her own admissions Later however how how- ever eyer and before her release the husband showed signs of convalescence cence and said he would sign a complaint In many a drunken driving case the authorities authorities au au- au- au permit the principals to settle their own differences civilly and the public interest is not given the slightest tion Why not then hen carry the practice still further by permitting a safecracker when caught to restore the plunder and walk of off scot-free scot to rob others Shall ShaU we free drunken drivers safecrackers and other othe when those hose offended are unwilling to sign complaints because for forne forone forone one ne reason or another their feelings have been salved by some sort of material settlement settlement settle settle- ment In drunken driving cases if it settlement of the damage out of court is to be taken as an excuse for failure to prosecute the police might just as well forgive drunken drivers who cast their deadly menace across traffic threatening threat lives and property but who through a freak of luck escape a crash