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Show WHERE ENGLISH 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 i theft not exceeding the value of a I sheep. Now some of the London Journals Jour-nals are making a merciless exposure of magistrates throughout the kingdom king-dom who keep rip the tradition by sentencing sen-tencing petty thieves to jail, while inflicting in-flicting only trifling fines upon wife beaters and even more brutal offenders. offend-ers. In 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 ironey for drink, and another was sentenced to 60 days Imprisonment for damaging growing potatoes and stealing two footballs. For cruelly to a horse, beating his wife, who was III. with fist and hammer ham-mer and leaving her with nothing to eat, one man was fined two dollars, while another, charged with stealing a pair of socks valued at 1? cents, got 14 days' hard labor. It ould not be difficult to make up a list of similar cases from American police courts, yet the tendency in America is rather toward a higher estimate of the value of human life. Van Norden Maga7ioe. |