Show JUDGE GROSSCUP ESCAPES It is not pleasant to put a federal judge in the lie prisoners prisoner's box But if he belongs there it is not pleasant to realize that he has hag been freed The Tue charge against Judge Grosscup of Illinois Illi 1111 nois in the matter of a wreck on a railroad which he partly owned and andon andon andon on which he was was anti and is is-a is a director seem to have been well foun founded The fhe loss of life lICe in the wreck was directly attributable to the condition which the tho directors and officials enforced rhe They were absolutely responsible for or physical condition for running time for fOt operation for material antI and for formen The They forced to make trip trips trips' that could not have been heen less than hazardous and when travel became generous they increased those chances without making at all adequate safeguards safe safe- safeguards guards for the people who rode j There are arc some cases in which the management of a company cannot properly proper be charged with an accident however lamentable its results But this does lees not nol seem to havo have been that sort of an accident When the IllS IW- nois jud judge e quashed the tho indictments I and refused to hold 1 the prisoners to the next grand jury he left the inference inference in in- ference that the position of at least one of tho those so defendants Judge Grosscup Grosscup Grosscup Gross- Gross cup was the reason for his radical action Judge Grosscup Crosscup is a rich man n a good business man iun Ho has departed from the comm common n rule of jud judges es and antI has invested invested in in- vested his money moner In business and gives much o of his time to the profitable management of oC his bis properties Because Because Be De cause they could make much mone money by neglecting safet safety precautions those thoe precautions were neglected They made matIe the money aud and more than a score of men and women were killed in an instant ro Wo shall shaH be interested in watching if the Illinois prosecutors have havo o the tho courage to tr try It again i L t 1 o. o |