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Show "Justice" Openly Bought. Removal of an unjust Judge from the United States bench reminds the London Chronicle that centuries ago justice was not administered nearly so Impartially as It is now. There were the "basket Justices" who received re-ceived their nickname from the presents pres-ents openly handed up to them In court by suitors. And in more recent re-cent times there were the "trading Justices" satirized by Fielding in "Amelia." Townsend, the celebrated Bow street runner, In his evidence before a parliamentary committee in 1816, described how these Justices used to issue batches of warrants every ev-ery day "to take up all the poor devils on the streets, bo as to charge them two shillings four pence each as ball. Only the penniless offenders were sent to Jail, and a morning's work would sometimes produce 10 ($50)." After which the worthy magistrate and his clerk would adjourn to a neighboring hostelry for refreshment |