Show THE ASS ON JURIES IS DOOMED judye Sf cConnell presiding over the ch cago court in which tha alleged murderers murder ars of cronin are on trial ye erday made an announcement ft bull gives bome hope that the american jury system may yet become respectable he declares that the ordinary bucs having presented the securing of a amy after nine days of continuous but vain endeavor he will no linger exclude men who have formed opinions from reading new a papers provided eccli men are intelligent tell igent and candid enough to reverse their opinions by weight of evidence that is to pay he will not drive the to the insane asylums with his kenires venires all the oher paces within having been thoroughly gifted without obtaining the desired result we can well imagine that judge Mc Connella action will be excepted to by the defense and that possibly it will be decided to be error by the in the course of human or inhuman dents the case shall finally reach there but whatever the fate of this bold and sensible movement eo far as it relates to the present cause no man of intelligence can doubt that it is the knell which marks the doom of the ass on the jury of the future the american public disgusted beyond all expression by the monstrosity which now masquerades as trial by jury will hail with delight this dawn of a better day and their wishes enst boan be into law and legal practice despite the divinity which hath deemed to hedge the old ridiculous form soon the man of brains will be the peer of the fool in the right to erne on juries and their rights be ng equal no one can doubt that ot the two the ass vall be excused when the law shall comprehend judge diee no longer will delicate evidence ba weighed by a gang of ignorant brute no longer will the moat intricate questions which affect socie tys relations be entrusted exclusively to the imbecile and the depraved inelli genco and candor ill be classed as virtues and not as disadvantages in the jury box and a mm can read his favorite paper without feeling that by eo doing he is placed without the pale of civilization |