Show A SCREW LOOSE I 1 THE action of the grand J jury u ry in ignoring the cases of several noted culprits including the young ruffians who have been so long a nuisance to the community and whose crimes are of no common character must give surprise to the public and be regretted by lovers of law and order in some of the cases ignored the defendants fend ants plead guilty in the police court and the evidence against them was thought to be conclusive there may be reasons for the course taken in theft cases that are hidden from the common sight but it if will be believed that they are not of the kind which should prevail in the administration of law and justice of what avail is it that proofs of crime are obtained by the officers who are entrusted with the preservation of the public peace and that c committals are obtained on this evidence in the lower courts if the body selected to frame indictments in such cases turn the offenders loose to prey again upon society lety we have no disposition to find fault with public men in the discharge of their duties or the exercise of that discretion which the laws permits but we must confess to some surprise and not a little indignation dig nation Dation that such flagrant cases as some which the grand jury have ignored are removed from possibility of punishment ind and the notorious offenders are free to repeat their depredations the general remark is s there is a screw loose somewhere it looks like an attempt to throw cold water upon the zeal of the lower ower cobit in the proper enforcement of criminal law |