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Show THE FAILURE TO PUNISH CRIMINALS Of 198 murders committed in New York In 1911, 229 in Chicago, 101 In St Louis, and so on with sixty other American cities, says tho Now York World, not one murderer was executed within tho year In whJch he commit ted his crime. True, we have tho Beattlo case in Virginia to point to as proof that the law's delays do not always al-ways defeat or stave off justice, but such examples have come to be tho exceptions. OfTlclal statlBtlcs show that In 1910 six of overy 10t),000 persons in this country were murdered. Tho total number of convictions of murderers Is not at hand, but statistics are for a few cities in 1911, which are significant signifi-cant enough. While New York police arrested iu ot me is raurnorors in 1911, the courts there secured only ono conviction In every" nine cases before them In Chicago tho police arrested 172 of the 229 murderers and the ratio of convictions was also ono In nlno; tho Philadelphia police caught 71 of 31 murderers, and the convictions wero aiout the same as In the othor two cities. San Francisco stands out with one conviction out of every two cases. In London, with a population of about 7,000,000, pnly 19 murders wero committed com-mitted In 1909, and all but one were arrested and convicted; In Now York with a population of less than 5,000,. 000. 198 murders wore committed In 1911. The common excuse that the American Amer-ican police aro loos efficient than thoHo abroad will not explain away this awful Indictment. Tho records mako a fairly good showing for the police. The trouble lies In tho prosecuting mechanism and In the courts, where technicalities and tho "law's delay ' are tho forccB that defeat Justice. Un-clog Un-clog the whoels of Justice with tho rod tape, make the technicality of the law subservPent to the plain purpoBo and soe If six ofevory 100,000 of us aro still murdered every year Conduct Con-duct criminal cases on tholr morlt and make It hardpr for halr-spllttlng lawyers with no higher motive than a fat foe to obtain tho freedom of blcodv-handod criminals, and wo shall give back to the law some of Its terrors ter-rors to the evil-door. Omaha Bee. |