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Show DECLARES UTAH IS TOO SYMPATHETIC Leniency With Criminal Almost Notorious Kdltor Telegram: Just a Hrw In commendation of your recent editorials regarding the action taken and sympathy eitended to criminals crim-inals In this state. I'tah has become known to the criminal world as one of the easiest states in the I'nion ss re? gsrds penalties for crime committed, whether it be murder or otherwise. I am sarisfied there la not an officer In the state but what will fervently say "Amen" to the editorials above referred re-ferred to, and only from standpoint of Justice I would like to ask those who mske It possible for these criminals to be turned loose upon the community, communi-ty, what Incentive there is for a peace officer to continue to seek out this element; and again take the chances necessary to protect the public from, further depredations, when, after proven prov-en KUllty of almost every crime v llhln the calendar, the board of pardons, listening to recommendations that the criminal has been a model prisoner for a few months, either paroles, or par- , donii;-with the result, ss statistical will show, that the model prisoner within a short time has returned to his old haunts, and sooner or later Is again In the clutch of the law. often upon a more serious charge. There Is one feature the average cHlcn evidently has not paid attention to, and the board officials might be placed In the same category, and that is. since "prohibition came to us, the crook Is a different men, he ia more observing crafty. Ingenious and deliberate, and while narcotics have In a sense taUen the plac of intoxicants, it has the tendency ten-dency of making the criminal the more bold, and the taking of human life to obtain his ends la lost slicht of. Judge U B. Wight of the district court a few daya ago sounded the keynote of this situation when summing sum-ming up a case, staled In substance: "The time has arrived for Justice to prevail, and the doing away with maudlin sympathy." Yours very truly. W. T. AT LAND. |