| Show THE CASE OF LYONS Is crime a dis disease east the question hab baa been asked a thousand times but there thera lies baa been no unanimity in the answer prom from scientists moralists mora lists and specialists come arguments pro and con according to the point of view and one of the greatest developments of mod ern times for or the cure of crime is in rather in the line of prevention and the improvement pro of the environment of the th individual A case of great importance as an an aa illustration is dwelt upon in recent chicago papers henry lyons lyona butch batch lyons liyeos was his bis better knowe name was banged by the neck until dead last friday at high noon he had mauled hauled a companion to death and when became up for sentence neither the I 1 judge who presided at the trial not nor his bis own attorney could boula find anything to warrant an appeal for mercy in blip bl behalf the prosecutor declared that thai be b was a criminal flow birth that this statement was no exaggeration in shown by his record at As the ago aged f nine he was sent to the bri bridewell dowell he served terms repeatedly for minor offenses lenses of between 1877 and 1885 when be was committed to the house of correction for the serious arime of robbery in 1888 he be was arrested for rape in imi 1889 he was sent to the bri bridewell dowell for burglary in 1894 1694 he was again arrested for fer burglary within six months he wea was again arrested tor for criminal assault when he be killed hiss companion he had served one term la in the penitentiary aud and twenty one to in the th orl bridewell dowell and he had been arrested over times such has been the life of a youth who at the age of 27 closes close his career on ois we the gallows his father was a drunkard his mother a poverty stricken and heartbroken heart broken woman by bli ablith tb he was alcoholics alcoholic by surround surrounding inge an enemy to law and order by instinct a wolf child among men there was wa hardly one chance in a hundred that be should have turned out much better than he be did and while specialists go on discussing whether or not crime arim ia i a disease and the result of environment and nd while philanthropists philanthropist go on donat lag ing millions mil liona in money for the ibe conver sion ion of the heathen some importance to 16 demanded for the question que atlon whether nen men like butch lyons have bad a fair chance and whether our olvi civilization liza is all that it to represented to be |
