Show doubtless readers ot or me news have been following the case of dr crippen ind and miss le laneve lieve who were arrested on a steamer while entering the st lawrence river just before quebec que b ec was reached early monday morning tile the man ind and woman had bad baffled the wits of the detectives ot of europe and america until a wireless message from tile the captain or of tile the montrose monti ose gave g ave tile the information formation Iti to scotland yard that the much wanted pair were aboard his vessel bound for canada the crime of which the pair are suspected Is that of murdering dr crippens Crip actress wife lu in Lon daon the thing which impresses us most in tills this international case is the ab absolute so I 1 justice and fairness of the english law when tile man mail and woman were made prisoners they were treated with inith every courtesy possible and the instruction was given their guards that under tinder no consideration was tile the sweating process or third degree to be resorted to it if either cither of them expressed a wish to make a confession the instruction was given that the prisoners must first be ba acquainted with the fact that anything they might say would be used as evidence for or against them thein in the trial the english police methods unequivocally forbid forcing a confession and the accused is given avei every y latitude m and all the opportunity possible to prove ills his innocence in tact fact it seems to when a person has been beebi arrested for a crime the officers make it their business to assist him to prove ills his innocence and the mandates 0 the law are only adain admin administered j ster when guilt Is proven beyond every shadow of a doubt and while the english law protects every interest of the accused it metes out swift and sure punishment to the proven guilty there are no delays because of technicalities in ill the complaint or because the judge might have used the giong word in fit defining the law to the jury lN neither either can the insanity plea be worked in the english courts to show that for a few moments while the act was being committed the perpetrator was aas without reason the innocent are regarded as such absolutely until they are proven guilty but when hen guilt is proven tile the heavy hand of the law descends emphatically and the price has to be paid be it little or great murderers almost without exception pay the penalty with ith their lives in england and not very much time is wasted either in convicting other offenders against the law meet the same swift punishment i 1 Jn A America to our shame the example of our mother country old england and is not always followed vo ve often read or of accused prisoners being subjected to the most inhuman tortures in order to make them conless confess and other indignities are heaped upon them until one sometimes wonders whether whether pr not we truly regard an accused person as innocent until he be lias has been proven guilty in nearly every case where a man has been proven guilty of a crime liisi ills attorneys make a motion for or a new trial because of some little defect in the complaint or because of other technicalities which have no bearing whatever on the guilt or innocence ot of the accused but because ot of the existence of these things many a condemned man mail has had ills his life saved when there was no question whatever as to ills his guilt wo we move too fast over hero here in A merlea and in fit the great rush many things are overlooked ovel looked but there is one sure thing our code of jurisprudence is sadly in need of revision there are fenier feer criminals asci escape pc in england than hall in america and expense of court proceedings Is not nearly so cp great in the old country as it is here simply bee because ause the judges will not permit dilly dallying and new trials when it has been shown that 1 a I sentence in tile the complaint lias has not been correctly constructed and other similar it if a man is innocent he Is innocent and if he Is guilty and lie he is usually proven so when tried he is guilty whether the complaint reads correctly or not tile the child can call always learn fron from its mother america is no execution exception x |