Show two kinds of law there was a case in the police court yesterday where a young man was charged with ith the theft of some boots but the parties settled the accused paying the accuser 60 50 cents you had no right to take money to settle a case of theft said the police magis As a statement of law this may be all right but how does the principle work as applied to larger people than the 50 cent disputants in yesterday yesterdays a courte when a bank clerk steals thousands of dollars does the law say that the bank has no right to take money to settle the case of thefts whatever the written law may be the practice Is to let big operators in theft settle with the big institution institutions they have wronged the principle Is in practice accepted that the big I 1 in n ution shall be considered and en abbed to recover it if it can what has been stolen from it the way it works out in this as in many other matters Is that there la Is one law tor for the great and another for the small toronto star |