Show IT IDE ON ONI I WOMEN SlAYERS Juries No Longer Free Female Female Female Fe Fe- male Killers It ItIs Is Said NEW YORK March 10 BY By U. U P. P Women can no longer get away with murder i The open season on males during i which wives and sweethearts could kill with Impunity confident of ac acquittal acquittal ac- ac ac- ac is a thing of the past American juries have determined that women women must pay for crimes crime of I passion These are the opinions of Ferdinand Ferdinand Ferdi Ferdi- nand C. C Pecora assistant district j FerdI-j at attorney attorney attorney at- at torney of ot New York famed as one of the most astute and aggressive prosecutors In the East Discussing the sudden turn In the tide which swept Mrs Lillian and Mrs Paulette Sal Saludes des Into prison for tor murdering men following a a. long list of acquittals of women who killed husbands husband and sweethearts Pecora said that the sentiment with which such uch slayers have heretofore been regarded Is rapidly disappearing He believes this is due to the Increase In these crimes and the greater freedom freedom freedom free free- dom now given women Time was when a bullet from a a. womans woman's revolver would take a mans man's life and shatter his reputation also at the tho same time But now says Pecora all this Is changed Men uMen who tho serve on Juries now are looking upon women with the same dispassionate eyes as eg upon prisoners of ot their own sex sex- he said The Baizen and Saludes cases Indicate an entire change In the masculine atti atti- tude This change change- is based on two things first a a. clear recognition by men of feminine emancipation sec see second second ond the alarming growth of crimes of ot passion In which women were wore accused Both the and Sal Saludes des cases I were similar in that they Involved men who were charged with betraying betraying betraying betray betray- ing the women whose hands caused their death Once the betrayal phase would have been a powerful weapon for tor the defense But both were convicted convicted convicted con con- of murder In the second degree |