Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-12-06 | Page 3 | Doyle Worried by Crime in the U. S.

DOYLE WORRIED BY CRIME IH THE U. S. LONDON, Dec. i. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone was the principal guest at the dinner of the Authors' club last night. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who presided, referred to the laxity of the law and Its administration in the United States, and said that that great nation had outgrown its legal strength with appalling results. While Great Britain in the Boer war lost 22,000 lives, the United States lost. In the same three years. 32,000 lives through murder of homicide. This would be piteous to the high hopes of those who looked to America as the Utopia of the future, but, he added; America would crush this foul growth by strengthening the machinery of the law and putting judges on a higher basis. Lord Alverstone, replying, said he agreed wi'.h every word Sir Arthur Conan Con-an Doyle had spoken, and that his remarks re-marks were no stronger than he had heard from many Americans themselves. But In regard to tha treatment and reclamation re-clamation of convicted criminals Lord Alverstone said Great Britain had much to learn from America, and Americans ere working hard to make their system pot only humane but truly preventive of crime.