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Show CAR BARN BANDITS ARE TEXTS FOR MINISTER Discourses in Chicago Pulpits Show Radically Different Dif-ferent Views on Hanging and Crime. church the Rev. John Thompson, In declaring de-claring that the church' owes a duty to criminals, said: "If all were In prison who deserved to be there, there probably would be a large Increase In 'Help Wanted' advertisements adver-tisements and some painful vacancies In some social and religious gatherings." CHICAGO, April25. The hanging of the car barn bandits and the lessons to be drawn from it have been touched upon in several churches. At the People's Peo-ple's church the Rev. J. M. Driven In bis sermon declared that, capital punishment punish-ment is the capital crime of the century, cen-tury, and argued that the Governor should be deprived of the pardon prerogative. pre-rogative. The Rev. R. A. White In the Stewart Avenue Universalis! church advocated the substitution of the electric chair for the gallows. ! - In the Grace Methodist Episcopal |