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Show Common Sense Justice One of the distressing results ol ending men to prison Indiscriminately Indiscrim-inately for all sorts of offenses is that it often works a terrible hardship hard-ship on those dependent upon theru. Judge Nova of Brooklyn is one who recognizes this, and in certain cases cas-es adopts practical means to protect pro-tect innocent victims of the law's operation. When Frank Bruno, who earns $50 a week, was brought before him recently and pleaded guilty to having hav-ing two wives, one with two children chil-dren and the other with one, the Judge said: I would gladly send you to Sing Sing, but your two wives and their children would be the sufferers. You will pay the wife with two children chil-dren $20 a week and the wife with one child $15." Thus five persons, who would have been deprived of support through sending Bruno to the penitentiary, pen-itentiary, were provided for, while the culprit will be constantly reminded re-minded of his offense and is not likely to repeat it. That appears to be Justice tempered tem-pered with common sense. |