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Show CRIMES THE PEOPLE PAY FOR To every accused person there is due a fair trial. Granted 1 But some prisoners cost the state a lot more than they are worth to give them fair trials. A few weeks ago in New York State it took over fifty thousand dollars dol-lars to send a a scroundrel who had murdered a girl to the electric chair, And it is more than likely that Thaw will cost the county a record breaking sum to get justice from twelve of his peers. If the crime of which he is accused had occurred in the Italian quarter it would have Jiad a headline in a yellow journal, and justice would have been meted out in an ordinary and inexpensive third-class form. Picturesque, or "upper-class," crime is costly to the community that is unlucky enough to ' obliged to foot the bilf. A criminal is a criminal, no matter what his financial resources may be, and crime is crime, no matter what color the motive to it may have. Then why not a little more equality before the bar? Saturday Evening Post. |
