Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-09-30 | Page 22 | Change in Procedure

CHANGE IN PROCEDURE I I fHE TIlE difficulty New York is experiencing in reI returning re re- I turning Harry Thaw to will probably result in a modification of procedure in homicide cases where the culprits culprit's sanity is questioned Had the tile jury found Thaw not guilty by reason of insanity found him guilty but insane his Ilis extradition extradition tion from an any state or country into which he might flee fee would never have been seri seriously opposed The Time charge chorge against him hint would havo have procured his surrender surrender sur sur- ur- ur render by bJ an any jurisdiction he might enter and NewYork NewYork New NewYork York would have e been relieved of the necessity of obtaining him him by the tho subterfuge that he is wanted to answer to an indictment for conspiracy Common sense su suggests that if Thaw is js insane insane he lie should be made a charge of the state of ot which he heis heis heis is a citizen ll if ii he is mentally incompetent Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania should take charge of him Under no iio rule of law or of logic could New V York advance a just claim that can be sustained by practice or precedent t. t Tt was a milk milk- wagon a on that helped Harry I Th Thaw w- w to escape Perhaps if jf it had been a water wagon wag the desire lo to recapture him would not tb en cn so keen The Atlantic Refinery comp company is about to cut a per pel cent melon This trust busting is great f for l' l business 1 I I