Show HURRIED TO THE HANGMAN reginald Dir birchall chall is no more having baving been hanged yesterday morning for the murder of young benwell our readers are all doubtless familiar wilh with the details of the affair from first to last from tho the crime itself or alleged crime whichever may way be preferred to the close of tho the trial and any recital of them would be pe now innocent or guilty birchall has paid the penalty the case cas e suggests again to the mind tho the dextre extreme me rigor of british justice and the exactness amounting to almost mechanism with which criminal trials are conducted in any parl part of her maje majest yB dominions it is 18 in exact and abrupt contradistinction to 0 our ur own liberal and in many instances lex lax methods bat but of the two the latter would seem to be the more civilized and hero here we rive give tho the defendant the tile benefit of every doubt and proceed upon the doctrine that society is injured less lets by a hundred guilty men escaping than by the execution of one innocent man A happy medium between the two extremes would seem to bo be the proper thing if only it could be determined and arrived at for a territory like utah for example to expend thousands of dollars upon the trial of a man notoriously guilty and by reason odthe of the rulo rule referred to have him receive tour four separate trials involving more than that many years time before justice is vindicated is outrageous and not less lees so to the peoples po 88 sense ense of right and wrong would it ha have v e been to execute him while there was a doubt as to the correctness of his conviction there was none asto the facts involved d wo we refer of course to 0 o the II 11 hopt opt case which ich is a conspicuous instance of how nearly antipodal are american and english criminal practice |