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Show Proposed Check to Crime. The New York plan to fine those convicted of carrying concealed weapons, 720 is an excellent idea, and we should like to see it given a trial. The carrying of deadly weapons has grown to be a custom cus-tom in almost every community. It is dangerous, and it is one of the great, causes of crime. In most cities the penalty is light, not enough to deter the man who finds it easier to live by holding np at the point of a revolver than by working. Chicago a year or so ago was swept by an epidemic epi-demic of crime. Hold-ups, robberies and shootings were of daily and nightly occurrence, and the police could do little, until Justice Caverly, one of the Police Po-lice Judges, began sending every person brought be fore him found with a weapon concealed on his person per-son to the workhouse for a long terra. It soon stopped the carnival of crime. When the toughs found that they had to go to the workhouse for carrying car-rying weapons they quit carrying them. We hope New York tries the plan. It will, we think, prove successful. If it does, the experiment should be of value to all cities, for all of them have the same problem to contend with to a greater or less extent. 7 |