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Show ( I i i f ' " ) S .. , , i . . . . . ff V, . ; ; . an. witnesses to I'ew Jf-r?-y r.-jy embarrass embar-rass the prosecution c ' Tou- -, V. iV. r-mon r-mon noman-slayer, h 13 sxn to I 3 put on trial for his V.'e. . j Cf eM tb a'-sur l.V.es that cor-p'.Icate the ad !-! trat: n cf the crir.lr.r.I law nor' Ljb ccr luceJ to t'.a e?'.Are of more guilty men than the proportion that a witness has only to cross an Imaginary Im-aginary line to avoid being callei to testify. ' In the recent trial of Mollneux witnesses wit-nesses who ha3 once told their stories before a Jury remained across the.,North river, and notonly could no process of the law compel their attendance, but the evUence they had once given coid not even be read to the Jury. A witness rarely absenta himself In a case of this aort without illicit Inducement, In-ducement, so the. lawa as they now atand are a direct Incentive to the commission com-mission t crime. . Improvement In the criminal law Is notoriously difScult. aa there are n6 private pri-vate Interests to b served by a change, but there ought to. be enougn disinterested disinter-ested lawyers to accomplish at least the obvious reforms. The Idea t hit in parts of the earns country s river should act as a bar to Juttlce la as archaic aa the old system of sanctuaries In which the worst crlra-Inaal crlra-Inaal could rest secure from apprehension. apprehen-sion. It is time for an agreement between Btates or a Federal act, or whatever Is i the process that would make it possible for New York, for instance, to set the witnesses whose attendance 1s demanded demand-ed by Justice. , . . , . For a started, an act making residents resi-dents of a' State subject to subpoena from adjoining States might be a good things . |