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Show WHERE ENQLI8H JUSTICE ERRS. American Variety Not Quite So Bad In Some Directions. It Is only a century since the death penalty was Inflicted In England for theft not exceeding the value of a sheep. Now some of the Ijondon Jour-I Jour-I nals are making a merciless exposure I of magistrates throughout the kingdom king-dom who keep up the tradition by sen- tpnnlncr nnMv thlnvna tn tall whltn In flicting only trifling fines upon wife beaters and even more brutal offenders. offend-ers. !n one police court one defendant defend-ant was fined $2.50 for knocking his wife down In the street because she refused to give him money for drink, and another was sentenced to 60 days' Imprisonment for damaging growing potatoes and stealing two footballs. For cruelty to a horse, beating his wife, who was 111, with fist and hammer ham-mer and leaving her with nothing to cat, one man was fined two dollars, while another, charged with stealing a pair of socks valued at 12 cents, got 14 days' hard labor. It would not bo difficult to make up a list of similar cases from American police courts, yet the tendency tn America is rather toward a higher estimate of the value of human life. Van Norden Magazine. |