| Show 1 l I 1 WHY NOT OUTLAW THE GANGSTERS THE suggestion Is made by the dean of duke university law school that legislators isla tors might well mell consider a revival of the old english statutes of outlawry as a means of checking the activities of racketeers and gangsters under those these old tans laws any person known to be an habitual violator of the claws laws whether convicted under the rules j of evidence or not could be declared an L outlaw that Is without the protection of the law it became the duty ot of every j citizen then to kill 1111 such an outlaw on sight ills his property was forfeited and his family prohibited from carrying on his n name am e th that t mas vi as an effective means of dealing out summary justice it has been used fin the united states more than once in I 1 the past century and a halt half the suggestion 1 i mill n make the tenderhearted tender hearted eliud ashud i 1 der but so did the kidnapping of the lindbergh baby we think the time Is here for the tightening up of the criminal ian laws 3 A As S long as crooks can corrupt legislative bodies and courts they nil mill continue to flourish and imperil the lives and ana property of honest men we think the taxpayers are paying too much now tor for the board and lodging of prisoners in jails we think it might be a good idea to consider the more effective and economical way jay of ridding the nation of known criminals by declaring them outlaws |
