| Show 1 1 T 0 ALS S CONTEMPT T OF COURT CO merrt of court coort is disregarding or slighting C or ignoring tiie lutlo lutio i itar presence of the court X and is of two kinds direct and constructive direct direct aa rafi raft isal isai to ta obey lawful orders of court and constructive s tr tive a aa mise misconduct conduct in court or corruption III in officers connected with the court either cither 13 by omission omission or commission whis this constructive contempt by ma may be by neglect of duty abuse of process oppression extortion ete etc fraud or malpractice on tiie tile the vlot art of or attorneys or solicitors taking 7 improper advant advantage we of clients breach of duty etc disorderly conduct in court or the immediate vicinity thereof contempt tho tho the publication in newspaper of ad ari article to impair the respect a and nd hut of a court has sometimes beon pun dished as contempt but it is generally considered that in doing joing a court occupies somewhat danger ous and doubtful ground it nevertheless permitted in some Q the united states by sta statute tute lute or constitution ution contempt as for disorderly conduct in court is liable V to be punished by summary order of court without the ordinary forms of driml criminal pr proceedings oce edings in other cases an attachment is issued for the of the tile offending party who is required to answer written interrogatories and upon admission proof of the contempt the adjudges punishment for the of fence I 1 at its discretion by fine imprisonment or both the nonpayment non payment of costs etc adjudged by the court is held to contempt for which process of attachment tach ment is issued but bat in these and the tife like cases the attachment is to le be regarded as a civil remedy for the benefit of one party against another rather than as criminal process for the vindication of the authority of the court and the right to issue attachments in these cases caes is now restrained within narrow limits thus punishment for contempt is a judicial visitation for misconduct or to enforce the performance of duty as to court matters As a rule each judge is held to be the sole judge of his jovn cases of con tempts though in the recent case of storey editor of the chicago temes times he was Te leased sed from confinement for contempt though still held hold to answer by writ of supersedeas from a superior court courts havo an inherent power to punish all persons fur for contempt of their rules and orders I 1 for disobedience of their process and for disturbing them in their proceedings in some states azid and in tho the united states courts the power to punish for eon con tempts is restricted so that no one is punishable as for contempt for any publication made or act done out of court which is not in violation of such lawful rules or orders or disobedience of its process Con tempts by the law of this territory are misbehavior in court or in the vicinity thereof tending to disturb the proceedings disobedience of or resistance to lawful orders or processes of court refusing to be sworn or to answer as a witness rescuing persons or property from lawful custody of off omm meers officers disobedience to orders or directions of court as regards 0 approaching or influencing jurors during trial in regard to the chi chicago leago leamo contempt case mentioned the c cleveland leveland 11 herald says the recent arrest and anil imprisonment of the editor of the chicago limes for contempt of court in criticizing criticising critic ising the action of the grand jury provoked a good deal of comment on the powers assumed by judges in such cases that some method of maintaining the dignity of courts is necessary has not been disputed but on tile the other hand it is generally admitted that the powers now possessed by the courts are essentially arbitrary and despotic and are sometimes used wed in a very oppressive manner wo we heard a local justice of the peace not long ago priding himself on his magnanimity in not packing onn off to jail at once a lawyer who had used some seme oppressions Oppress lons ions in the tho justices office 77 T 34 57 4 n r 7 tta which the justlee justice co disrespectful ful though there n ight possibly ly be a 4 difference of un tn that point the action of tile the i chicago judge in c committing an editor to jail for com ments in a newspapers duy iny not mat in this co un r F j if f i fre and 11 T 4 chief jausi juluce ce cockburn Cock burn burP tri fri in hi sit fit bingin the Tich hobe hohe il but sut rule sule i A se verely complain lied of or aa sar sat hy strict and arbitrary in ili can construing thiv thin thi may anay bo be one of or thu cause of tha strong bias of 11 p 1 populace 0 o pu ime of london aut ant and some other AA 0 of r england against his hia lordship lord 1 P mid and in favor of and aud the claimant jalm laim pending that trial triai treala a remote provincial editor published A a sume sumi um mary of one days his own comments for which he be was summoned to court and heavily fined two members of parlia parila ment a to raise funds to pay the claimant s counsel cotins dl and vere were taken before the chier chief Jil stice jand fined and prohibited from addressing duy any tuble tubie public bubile meeting during the trial unless by y hk liiv permission t 1 more roc rec recently roe y justice con eon confined n n e d a discharged prisoner for whispering to his hid hi fellow prisoner sti still ll il 11 an andon harial trial for burglary burglars V the judge understood that the discharged pris prisoner joner loher threat enca the tiie the contin coutin contingency genci gency I 1 of his splitting on him but the judge afterwards modified judg judgment mentor or liberated the tipp ripp supposed qa of dender offender from the contempt in in thy thee county bf bos ros roscommon gor por common mon ireland rl is a st still ill lit more t se it has recently been discovered dasco bre vre d that in juno 1853 a man was vas committed for contempt of bf court for no nonpayment non n payment of somo some trifling costs in lna ina a court of df probate rhe tha the matter was brought to td ahe uhe ahei notice noce of the last assize fori nori that county by ahe fhe prison officials a and nd an investigation was waa ordered T the ke time and alid cause caise of hig ilia commitment were discovered after arter thorough sear search cli cil the ghe prison officials did not know his k nor w hed heri his hia term of imprisonment would expire the prisoner had either elther forgotten or lib lie refused to tell I 1 it i appeared that the tho Pr prisoner ischer was unable to purge himself of or contempt by paying the costs the judge forgot all about himond him nd as he was committed dai duning during ring the plea suie sule of the court he lay ilay in prison until the present the puzzle now bowis is boar to get nad rid of him the tho crown lawyers are afe studying the case the press is discussing it too if these thebe instances and others lead to toa a prue dent modification by parliament oft of the bopre present ent system and a judicious restriction of the supreme e and arbitrary powers or in contempt cases it will be a very ery beneficial and much needed reform ie ro r atlon the spirit of which ma may AP nal be confined to the british isles i f MURDERERS GOING TO IT is rather amusing fo read 0 the efforts of preachers eachers of various kinds kimo to prepare greab creat great criminals ep especially pe J i murderers for an estate of high glory and the the profess professed d kue vuc sue suo cess of these efforts in many cases these red handed desperadoes are cut and added dried so to speak safely paek packed ed up and ticketed for exa exalted eted positions in thet transcendent the dent gory glory of ofa a future state 1 stence here is a specimen in the tha person persan of a negro named giray hanged banged in arkansas who is reported t to 0 leave i made the tho folloW following ln i gr speech from th the e gallows well my friend friends im come today to let you all know pm im ready to die dio when idie idle I 1 shall gd to that other world that good world where ashall I 1 shall bhail have to die no more morre my uy trouble will soon be over I 1 want to djeh die dle am anxious to diegas di lal ewas born to die and am happy of it jt this ig Is the kest best best dayi dayl day I 1 ever saw I 1 will soon get the crown that is laid up for mein me in heaven well weil 1 bi bil I you all farewell and goodbye good bye ill meet you yoa all at the resurrection morn in a world of grace where there is no more trouble but a few more minutes and all will be over with me you may break my neck but you cant touch my soul I 1 1 will live with god forever where wh ere sweet milkana milk honey flows grave grive mahers makers and lawyers will soon be if IT tr i done elone with mo 1 ling thodi to diar beca use uso jt bell beli believe ev 6 1 in n chriso christ 1 I t itself sl sis s ye kno that r derer V bath a th eternal ilfe life ab liling in lipi murder arsand others shall shail have havo their apart 1 in I the lako lake burneti lith aith with tire tiro anti antl and which is the ahe second death math also aiso that teat whore monger i murderer murderers idolaters idol aters and lla ila liars rs are ara to 64 themselves outside the gaad of the tho holy ugly city new J eruslem eru alem i comments as the orthis reuf reut doctrine doc dob trine for if 1 jur d ebers are to 0 w 0 go o to glory anti and eiren even occupy high position os t gus dus and ivear aar par 6 crowns r 0 w n i s p 1 U 1 I 1 6 a state into which h humane 11 u li a til uil and d decent people will have ha ve 13 no 1 0 desire to go vi AND UGLY HONESTY t 4 the ercil d faiks talks about I 1 new OY yorks newly laai inai aln t arrup ion lon tion tou 1 th v which voe voy ta I 1 Itlen 19 as waging wit ing ung lug 0 alafris t corruption ao ani auf in ln new K ew york will adt ot be without d a most powe taul efrece upon the country boullt ry li hns has ceased to be bo regarded ai as steal public money in III new york which under the old did codes dodes of public morality and the relentless democratic governor of that chat r estate goes gots back ta the practices of 0 the thet better days with tiao the determined resolve re solva thab that con cou evicted public rogues shall not liot hoid hold positions of hondr honor and trust the reaction as aa we ourselves saw the proofs arit in oar our native state is as s sweeping w a 1 s sur surprising alsing if it threatens eyen even the social ostracism of men of df owing the their wealth io to public roul kobary bery bers who hoolver hob hoh have till recently bee been n riding up upon 0 n lver ahn b P top waves of popularity imi voice or ohne the v voice 0 lc e of bf its press h and n d people in b honor of or tilden and his ugly honesty ilg ils jig isi iti neither unheard nor unheeded here hero it is heard with alth increasing fear pear and in iri washington it is heard lizard in IV the thu of corruption in ia pennsylvania it Is heard angwill and will he be heeded wherever a robbed and in d ring ruled people have lecome awakened to a proper sense of tho the the he greatest of public wrongs and and the most dl alarming arming of public ic dangers gers the fiat has gobb forth that rogues and aud rascality must mastbe be not hot only anly exposed but punished in every state aud and in every to tha end shall cease to tb baa bo a passport of or either political or social position posidio n and that oat good food morals and add good i government i ent shall again assert the thein their lr cupi hupf supremacy emney against bad morais morals auti and bad govern covern anent all fill over oyer hlf hig at godforsaken god 1 for fon forsaken maken country i 1 I 1 i 1 i ha theme there 1 as is great need of if reform in in this tills coun country iary itry in la t the r i of honesty truth and ana virtue 1 is aride ard inthe itt the reformation sabu should sid ild boghi bogul adnew at new york it may be e said ift 16 could hardly begin at a place where hero reformation iq 14 more wore heeded i vu i I 1 L i let 1 now there are to be feminine fellows as as well as masculine fellows the royal anthropological society of great britain and ireland recently voted to admit bomento wo women mento to become fellows of the society soel Boci ety b being el ing c e 0 of f the kind in the united kingdom althou although gb in france some years ago 0 a kindred society accorded a similar privilege the debate on the we question of their admission took largely a physiological turn with photographic illustrations lustra ilon llon of the human farm divine the admission of domany woman etwas urged involved the necessity of expurgating some needful subjects 0 wounding womanly delicacy on n the other side it was maintained that such an objection was trivial and false and that if it either sex was morally imperilled imperil led by the discussions and illustrations it was the masculine huxley lubbock galten and other of the most eminent members favored the side of the women one distinguished absentee expressed doubts by letter as to the propriety of the measure but concluded by proposing his hla own own wife as a handl bandi candidate date for ad admission fi A U A IT D d GRO it aw XI I 1 nai nal X 6 C crime ORIME B I 1 ME I 1 IN 19 tile the P purse of a re recent cent trial triai at rif philadelphia of dr and marshall on a charge of th mhd penson person araon of joanna joann AT Morr says sass y audgo judge tiu fin letter in his cl charge to tb th ejury I 1 said although it may not be necessary I 1 regard it as a part of aly duty to cali call your attention to the eim ein cn moter fracter of the crime charged against these defendants derench ats there the re is none which equals quals it in wicked wickedness nessi or in its terrible conse conte consequence quence itis it is gr greatly wiy to be feared that abortion Is no longer confined to the victims of passion anti anil seduction it tt stalks abroad so brazenly heralded thit childhood in its most moat guarded home may see and feel its corrupting influences influences fluen ees ces that it break breaks down the guards of private and publia chastity and land fills the ranks rauka cf of prostitution is the tho smallest of its evils when it enters the domestic circle all that makes home holy and blessed wither in its track purity of respect abid confidence of man and wife the pride and glory of children and ard their tender care and all regard for family duties and i ties disappear forever woe to the land whose matrona matrons no longer point to their children as their heir jewels I 1 have referred tu these mattens matters that you might see eee the importance of the case to the community and to these defendants ants its your horror for the rime crime must not prejudice you against I 1 them or ar interfere with with their rights tights you must specially remember that the tue they tuey y are presumed to be Inno innocent dent until the commonwealth has proven their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt or It inocence innocence of bf defendants the from th the e evidence evidon ce and bf lof that thau you are ure the exclusive judges as you or are odthe of the credi credibility bilAy of the witnesses an improper acquittal might embolden a great evil and be fraught fr au with consequences most mo st 1 pernicious A A conviction without sufficient nt evidence strikes a blow at the law itself and at the bights rights rl of every citi citizen zen zed you will recollect that you are ne accountable oun table tabie to no human tribu tribunal ii al f for detlie the carree verdict to your and to god only are you responsible f ly |
