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Show Defect in American Law. In a letter published in the Syracuse Post-Standard, former Ambassador Andrew D. White speaks vigorously on the subject of "the chicanery, pettifoggery pet-tifoggery and folly in the defense of criminals." He says that "homicides have Increased within fifteen years from two thousand a year to nearly ten thousand, placing us by far in the lead of all civilized nations in this re-' spect," and that there were capital convictions in only about seventy cases last year. "The immediate cause of the whole of this slate of things, with constantly Increased disrespect dis-respect of law, Is, in my opinion," adds Mr. White, "a kind of sickly sentiment pervading the whole country on this subject." |