Show JUDICIAL TARDINESS A DECISION was expected f from rom the tj 0 S supreme court in the hopt case on monday last the matter has been before that body as a submitted pase case and under tinder advisement for several months and this delay in view of the tact fact that the case was expedited yi p order that it if might be heard beard and debei determined out of the regular or deris somewhat singular if not inexplicable not that there is any particular desire to have anything take place which would unsettle the stability of the judicial structure or that there is any pressing necessity for anaman evan even though convicted of murder four consecutive times paying the penalty one day before the raper proper tittle time but that there 1 is a necessity necessity that such cases be concluded one way or another without making them a continuous and severe burden upon the state year after year another case of similar nature is that of maxwell convicted of the murder of preller in st lovis louis the chicago anarchists and other eases cases too numerous to mention also furnish evidence of the fact that too mach leniency is shown men who babek only been fairly and legally proven I 1 ity beyond a doubt but whom everyone every one who knows the circumstances knows to be guilty they should either be liberated or punished one ene or the other not kept in suspense sus pesse until they are enfeebled by confinement and thus tortured illegally or are perhaps too old to enjoy fraed freedom fer if I 1 f at last it comes A manchester paper cites the ease case of a man in lancashire who is to be hung next Tuesday for a murder committed shortly after new Yearl Ye arsand sand contrasts thel speedy justice of af england with the laxity of amerlean american courts in dealing with condemned murderers it deals with us in the following sarcastic vein after sentences have been passed in america the law of tho the republic holds as a first principle that every possible chance should be given to a 81 suspect aspect to prove his innocence the law will not take a mean advantage of a suspect simply because circumstances are cruel toward him in a few years the witnesses might forget the points of their evidence or dile ur or become alde aldermen or in some other way make themselves unworthy of 01 trust the prisoner himself in the interval might succumb to high living or old age but bull that would be lils his own lookout and the law would only pity his bis misfortune in thus untimely dropping ov off when there was a good prospect of a fla flaw in the supreme court to favor an ep entire tire retrial in no part of the world has crime a better chance of escaping with impunity than in the great republic it is rampant and defiant the knowledge of it is no barrier to acceptance in business circles and a known criminal Is apt to be regarded as a little above thereat erest tn the bail system and the theory that a suspected man should be provided with facilities for proving his pos possible or impossible innocence are mt the bottom of this state 0 of things ty |