Garland Globe | 1908-07-04 | Page 8 | Where English Justice Errs

WHERE ENGLI8H JU8TICE ERRS. American Variety Not Quite So Bad In Some Directions. It la only n century since the denth penalty was lufllctod In England for then not exceeding tho value of a sheep. Now Homo of tho London Journals Jour-nals nro making a merciless exposure of magistrates throughout the kingdom king-dom who keep up tho tradition by sentencing sen-tencing petty thlovcs to Jnll, whllo Indicting In-dicting only trilling fines upon wlfn boatora nnd oven moro brutal offenders. offend-ers. In one police court one defendant defend-ant wns fined $2.50 for knocking IiIb wlfo down In tho street bocauso she refused to glvo him monoy for drink, aad nnothor was sontenccd to 60 days' Imprisonment for damaging growing potntoc-H and stealing two footballs. For cruolty to a horso, beating his wife, who wns 111, with fist and ham-inur ham-inur nnd leaving her with nothing to cat, ono man was fined two dollars, while nnothor, charged with stealing a pair of socks valued at 12 cents, got 14 days' hard labor. It would not bo difficult to mako up a list of similar cases from American pollco courts, yet tho tendency In America Is rnthor toward a higher estimate of the value of human Ufa. Van Nordon Magazine