Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-10 | Page 4 | What Readers Think

1 wh What Readers Red Read rs rs i J Think jj i JUSTICE USTICE CITED Editor of The Telegram r rI 1 I want to thank you for your splendid edit in inv in frh If paper under the In Line I lilt of ot Duty I wish I it I. could b be r re reprinted printed on heavy cardboard and id hung in the tho homo home of every citizen ii of ot the state slate of ot Utah j I Surely something something- should be be bedone done to halt this bloody slaughter sl-aughter The concluding concluding- paragraph of your editorial should should should-be be studied b bevery by bi every judge who tries trie the cas cases s of these mad drivers namely The law Jaw may in good counte countenance countenance nance nanco deal brutally with tho those who are brutal tow toward rd the Jilie hap hapless hapless less they strike down It ItA A few weeks ago I read of tb the hl case of at a British peer of th realm who was tried for tor man slaughter Ho He had killed a mar ma while driving under the of oC liquor This mans man's sigh high standIng standing stand standIng ing in society did not absolve hi bin hirr from one of at the severest penalties ever ever- gl given giyen en in a Do similar case cue H was sentenced to a i t term rm of ot a ayears' ayears ayears' ayears all years' years imprisonment a fine line 0 o seven Beven thousand pounds abou abo aboul 3 35 which which WM was ws paid to o th tb thi family of the man man- he bo had killed and he was debarred from eve ve driving an automobile again If we could have justice like Uk thI in our country the appalling num nurn number number ber of accidents and fatalities would be greatly reduced r R. R J. J PO POLLACK I