Show PRISONERS CAGED IN COURT in italy cr finals on tr al are close ly conf ned to the foreigner and especially the italian the air of peace which prevails in an american criminal court of jus itce is a strange study says a detroit news tribune correspondent and the absence of bolts and bars and armed men arouses his wonder and surprise except for a policeman or two the prisoner is unguarded and sits beside his attorney with no more apparent re than though he was merely a defendant in a little action for debt in italy it Is very different for at a trial at assizes the prisoners are placed in cages from which escape is impossible in american courts three or four prisoners are often seen together and no bars or bolts are necessary to keep them within the bounds of court decorum but in ital an courts the hot temperaments of the prisoners require the restraints of gendarmes rifles and iron bars for not infrequently they are desperate men who would not hesi tate to make a bold fight tor liberty or visit death upon their accusers |