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Show H A Tough Fate ANDREW TOTH was a steel worker in Brad-dock, Brad-dock, Pennsylvania. Twenty years ago he H was convicted of murder and sentenced to K' b hanged, but later the sentence was commuted B to Imprisonment for life, and for almost twenty B years he has been serving out that sentence. Now, it transpires that he was innocent; that another Jp man committed the murder and that Toth was not in any way implicated in the crime. At thi3 a great hue and cry is raised, what the man has suffered is portrayed; the fallibility of courts and juries is pointed out, etc. It seems to us tihat on its face the case presents only a strong argument argu-ment against capital punishment. Were that the rule conviotions would be more frequent, and to remedy mistakes would be possible. The state of Pennsylvania ought to pay (the man what he would have received as a steel worker, with annual an-nual compound interest. That would satisfy the material portion. There can be no pay for what the man may have suffered mentally. He was the victim of circumstances, and no wisdom of men Lean devise what reward would 'be meet in such Sa case. He was like a man who supposed to be tiead, by loving friends was burled alive. He should have full pay for his time. That is 'as far as the state can go, and as we said above, uke case presents a powerful reason why capital pnishment should be abolished, for it is possible, possi-ble, sometimes, to so involve an innocent man, th no human wisdom can extricate him for "wifre is a destiny that shapes our ends, rough hevfl them how we will." |