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Show Errors of Justice Rare Another tragedy of blind justice is revealed with the announcement announce-ment that Jesse Lucas, 50-year-old Inmate of an Illinois prison has been freed because another man. on his deathbed, confessed that he killed the man for whose slaying Lucas was sent to the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. Press dispatches tell us that Lucas had served 23 year for the crime that ho did not commit, yet he is quoted as "bearing no grudge against society" for its fearful mistake. Let us be thankful that this man has been freed, and that the latter uart of his life will not be spent behind the bars that encompassed en-compassed him unjustly. However, there is no use for the sob sisters, male and female, to get worked up about it. . There are not many instances of this kind. Occasionally, one discovers than an innocent man has suffered through the error of the jury and the law, but these cases are rare and infrequent. |