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Show wiai'iiMiin'ii mii' iinwuiuum i .ii '?' ' in ------ jJ--i-ir i. i i r I JUSTICE ADMlKlsfEltED IN Tii)UrOnLR M AIJHER WioiH can, with good reason, feI proad ih record she has wtablisM in trying and disposing of John Scnrank, " who on October 14 attempted to $ assassinate Colonel Roosevelt, and oo November 25, exactly i six weeks later, was committed to the insane asylum. Those who have complained of the law's delays, the endless tech- nicalities, the jarring "expert witnesses' the motions for new trials and the appeals on flimsy j pretexts that have characterized most criminal prosecutions of late years, will read with relief and now hope the record of tho simple, sane and thoroughly dig- nified procedure followed by the trial judge, The court appointed a commission of ilvo well-known alienists to examine the accused and rcpart to the court as to his sanity. As noted last week in our news columns, the coramis- sion, after careful investigation, reported unanimously that i Schrank was suffering frn in- sane delations, that he was in- sane at the preseut time and 4 that h ww unable to caniHct f his defense intelligently. As a 1 part of Uwr report, they submit- . ted a statement prepared by Schrank to be read to the jury, which statement alone contained snfficient internal, evidence- of Schrank'a mental irresporsibil- ity. According to the news- paper, Schrank; showed keen J dlsapointmenl in not being al- -j lowed to pose as a martyr, to I the satisfaction of his paranoiac ' delusit ns ami tho inspiration of other insane cranks. The entire ; procedure, sas The Journal of tho America(h '"Medical Associa- tioq,. is in gnitifying contrast to ' somo of '6uTY,eleb'rate"d,' mur- ) dor trials ani is an- unanswer- ! able reply tolhe argument that S such spoctacs are necessary to protect individual rights or are unavoidable under our laws- ' Judge A. C. Backus, the trial J judge, deserves tho approbatioa ) of all good citizens, and espeo ially of all practitioners of medi- cine and law since it is on these j two nrofessions that the scandal : and disgrace of the abuses of ; expert testimony havo fallen ; most heavily |