Show PR PRESS SS PARAGRAPHS The newspapers arc are sl kc at the procedure in in French criminal ca cases cs as revealed by the trial of Mine lIme Philadelphia Record A reading of the reports of f f tho the sensational mur murder er trial tria no now proceeding at Paris will be bo apt to reconcile one with tho the An Anglo Anglo- Jo Saxon axon system of criminal jurisprudence including even tho the abuses which have crept h into to the system as If it is is administered admin admin- in In the tho United States States- Now Haven Hayen Resistor Register The Thu case of Mino now on trial at tho the Seine assizes for the tho alleged murder of her bel hu husband and una her stepmother on tho the night of May ar 30 30 HIOS 1 is through and antl andt t h purely Parisian Tb The rho o woman is herself a consummate tre s. s Her h history history his his- ston s. s tory ton has Till 1111 Acquirements of a powerful pow pow- erful dramn drama And as nothing suits Paris better than realism tho the keenness of the interest in tho the trial is intensified in time the proportion of real Teal life to Troy Times 5 The trial of Mote Mine for murder mUffler in Paris is developing develop u in ing as mau many sensations as liB as could be lie crowded into the most lurid land melodrama Yesterday the case was halted halte because of tho statement by an alleged accomplice that he was tho actual slayer The Theman man mall was detained and anti it turned out that he lie was an actor who made mado up tip for tho the part If this case does docs not get geton geton ct on on tho the stage in tho the form of a play it will be surprising Boston Herald Much as s we wc have o erred in this tillS country through rh excess of rl regard artl for 01 the iud individual l char charged rd w with tIt crime a e regard ard for justice which lists led Jed to a maze of technicalities in his favor and against the states state's welfare we have o not Dot yet reached re that point in our reaction from the defects of the tho J Eu-J lish Eu-lish gh 6 stem system of judicature to go o over or overto overto to the 1 rench French system that puts puls the task of proving innocence upon the individual in iu and permits judges ca to to todeal deal eal with prisoners at th the bar as us President t Devalles Dc of tho court of assizes assize is now with Mine Pittsburg Dispatch We Wc do not un- un to say whether Mine is innocent or r guilty guilt but wo we tb do o say a that such stich a trial as the tho ju judge Jo i is ll an innocent per pcr person son mi might ht easily casil be condemned We Weri ri rightly ur urge c a a. a 1 reform of t tJ fa fatuities fatuities- delays and l our own 81 sya- sya tern tem em But nut even oon with tho those c defects there e is more justice in om than i the tho French each which reached reache its f bloom in the thic avowal owal luring during the thc Dreyfus case that when a crime crimo it against f tho ho state was committed committe it was more important to punish some ono one than to mal malvo sure that the cr person jerson on punished is tho the guilty one tt Baltimore American The The mystery Clr of her case case lies in her personality It 0 Tho fencing of the tho a accused c woman lir hr ler ability to make mako the judges change c their tack tuck JI her r keenness to discern the tho point p int of an ni interrogatory appear to bo ho nothing less Jess than less than an impenetrable wall wail about her A personality compounded o of native shrewdness under tinder tho the guid- guid tJ ll anco of primitive instincts and acquired t of human character and hunan haman hu- hu man nan man m motives ti cs with the i instinct o of tho the lower animals to cover er their trail these things thins in th the tho bott setting n of a personality person person- on of great ni charm and 1111 a u dramatic ulnes of convincing power makes this woman fOman one of tho the most ru- ru nl ablo in the annaIs ls Js of feminine Criminality w. w n Po Post t I According to the American idea of justice the French method a a. a t sort oit of inquisition b bv by tho the thoc c urt a ad as typified in hi the case is s no not justice at nt all but hut a harrying antI and heckling of the pr prisoner onI more after the thc of the tho third lle degree 1 as is practiced by the time police e in this s country But Blit the administration of criminal l l law Jaw in France L is ou a wholly different plane platie from front that in t this is country where the time do- do fondant is surrounded with all nil safeguards safeguards safe safe- guards J ri against false accusation lIe He is is' innocent until proven oven plO cn guilty and Iud time the burden jurden of ot th the proof is ou time the stale It ItIs Itis Its is Is s to question whether extremes have ht lave not been rc reached in ill both Who shall sa say that the criminal practice of the future will not bo be a golden medium between the |