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Show the rlght6 of the poor and the Ignorant, who knew nothing of a writ of habeas corpus or an appeal to the supremo court." Other judges challenged Cleland to stand before the people and "confess himself Ignorant of the principles of the law ho had violated and tho chief justice declared that the Jurist under Are acknowledged the danger from tho upper courts when, as he once did, he said, he would dismiss the case against a paroled prisoner In order to keep an appeal of an application for a writ of habeas corpus from being heard. Judge Cleland flatly told the assembled assem-bled judges that what he did In his court was none of their business and that as lrng as he continued as a Judge he would administer justice as he saw-lit PAROLE -SYSTEM CANNOT BE PRACTICED NEW YORK JUDGES PUT A STOP TO THE SAME. i i Judge MacKenzie Cleland 16 Humiliat-. ed for Daring to Exercise His Own Judgment in Ca-es -Before Him. . Chicago, Feb. 20. Judge MacKenzie Cleland's reign as tho "little father of the parole system," as practiced by , him in the municipal court, has reached reach-ed an inglorious end. Judge Cleland nas been in the pub- -11c eye for some time bocause of his habit of suspending sontenceB during good ' behavior and his efforts to reform re-form accused persons - brought before be-fore him in the criminal brauch. His fellow judges have declared his methods meth-ods illegal. At a. storm meeting of the jurists, he was transferred to tho olvll branch and the oTder will take effect Monday. At a last session of hl6 "reporting" "re-porting" court, at which his charges were scheduled to appear, his "paroles" "pa-roles" w ere either discharged or were sent to the Bridewell to serve the original orig-inal penalties Imposed. Twenty-four judges arrayed against him in extraordinary session.' Chief Justice Olson summed up the case against Judgo Cleland. "The court's quarrel with you," said he, addressing Judge Cleland, "Is not that you may have shown kindness to the prlsoners.broupht before you, for that is done every' day, by every judgo of this court The court's quarrel with you is that you have' usurped tights of oltlzenah'p that arc sis old as' the Mana Charta- You have overridden |