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Show MOCKERIES OF JUSYiCIL Gross Inequalities and Severe Punishment In the Courts of London. For yearB Mr. Laboucbere has been denouncing in his paper the gross inequalities ine-qualities in the punishments meted out by different judges and magistrates for practically Identical offenses, and the daily -press constantly emphasize his denunciations de-nunciations by their reports of cases. Two monstrous mockeries of justice which have occurred within the last week or two appear to have at length moved the lord chancellor to some sort $f action. A leading criminal judge sentenced a man to 14 years' penal servitude, serv-itude, while in an adjoining court another an-other man got only three years for crimes that are practically identical. At Bristol a workless laborer with a starving wife and children altered a parochial pa-rochial relief ticket bo that instead of a half day's charity ration he obtained a full day's allowance, which gave a mor-tel mor-tel of food to each member of his family. fami-ly. For this terrible crime the poor wretch was sentenced to 12 months' Imprisonment Im-prisonment at hard labor. These parti alar cases quickened the lord chancel lor's interest in the general Bubjeot, and now it is announced that he is about to appoint a commission of judges, leading solicitors and barristers engaged in criminal crim-inal law to investigate and report what alteration in the laws or procedure hi desirable. -London Letter. |