Show m UNARMED POLiCE AWE Lon London on Bobbies Carry Only Small Leaded Stick on Rounds LONDON March 26 United United Press For manslaughter four years for assaulting tt n policeman wIth intent to kill life imprison imprison- meat ment Unarmed except for a sm leaded truncheon a few thousand policemen guard the largest city In Inthe inthe the world as the theIr r daily work They would be a huge joke as a police guard to the graduated American gunman but to the London criminal criminal crim- crim inal the power of the courts behind behind be- be hind them is more powerful than machine guns or artillery To the Londoner they are the law in name and In fact A man was recently charged with manslaughter lie He had been drunk while driving an automobile and had struck a child playing In the street The child later died In the hospital The man sas sentenced to foUt foum years years' Imprisonment stud and his license was suspended indefinitely With good behavior his sentence will probably be reduced to two an and one halt years GETS liFE SENTENCE The week samel-week man malT was brought to trial another man was charged In a courtroom almost cross across the hallway hall with the attEmpted at- at tEmpted mUrder by shooting of a policeman The policeman was In plain clothes clothe's and had attempted to stop tile the ac accused accused ac- ac man who was driving an automobile TIle rhe accused testified that he had thought the man w who o jumped on Oil the running board of his car was a thief or highwayman The judge listened to the defense patiently and merely turned to the defendant and amId sternly asked Why dont don't you tell the truth The accused had shot the pl ln- ln clothes policeman s during dur- dur ing the struggle The policeman was badly hadly wounded but lived and later testified at tile the trial The jury returned a verdict of guilty There Is only one penalty 1 1 can inflict th the judge said I 1 seri seri- tence you to penal servitude for life lite S SHOW NO MER CY S STile Tile The prisoner r had had pleaded for tor merc asking the judge to be lenient for the sake of his wife But under English law there Is Is' no melcy for anyone who attacks a 0 policeman policeman-nb matter what his provocation The London police forced force like every every other police lolice force picks Its men not for their high grade of mentality ut for tor height weight and and the wants t to lie e a policeman because because be- be cause he cannot be anything else The uniformed policeman In London London Lon Lon- don carries tile the most powerful e pons In the tho world the Englishman English English- man natural l and inborn fea of tile the law and his mo that an attack on the protector pt pf that law may mean long Imprisonment or even death S 5 plainclothes policemen are armed even during th riots and clashes ot of the general no arms were wera distributed except to uniformed soldiers Witnesses of these riots riots' saw saw crowds of ZOO a single policeman po- po from Tile The lolice- lolice man turned around and nd looked attile nt at t tile e crowd which fled In iii terror terror-of the tl la lav |