Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-03-01
No Law At ALL.
Justice Is a Scream
ing Farce in
Chicago.
Bad Petit Juries and. Tough
Grand Juries the
Rule.
Red-HOt and Eloquent DenunCia-
ton by the Hon. Judge
PrendergaSt
Of Corrupt Juries and Our
Present VillainOus
System.
Twenty Men Discovered
on a Recent Grand
jury,
But as Vet No InV0Stioa =
ton Has Been Or
dered,
Twenty-four Men Discovered
on a Recent Grand
jury,
But as Vet No InVeSti1a-
ton Has Been Or
dered,
Precisely as if a Ringer" Was
an Everyday Oc-
CurrenCe.

1t is becoming common talk in Cook
County that Justice is dead People
no longer feel the same respect for the
law that they used to feel. They see
rich malefactors escape every day in
the week. They see poor, poverty
stricken wretches deprived of their
liberty.
The Hankinses go free. SO do the
Bill Starkeys and the Johnny Gra-
hams.
When man has money himself, or
money behind him, he need have no
fear of the law.
Hawkins, the notorious gambler, says
he will be acquitted
He knows the power of money
No wonder the people are getting
restless. No wonder that even some of
the Judges are waking up on this mat
ter.
Judge Prendergast made a rousing
speech the other night at the Central
Music Hall to the Personal Rights
League on this subject. an common
with other great communities, said
the speaker, Chicago is said to suffer
from some abuses Of fundamental or
public nature. 1t is said that Common
Co,,roiIs have ,o4 1D,,, 41,o;,, 1,,t,-. II, n :
Boards of County Commissioners have
not done their duty; that members of
the Legislature have gone to Spring
field, not to execute the laws, but for
the purpose of finding ont what there
was in it. 1t has been said that the
courts are not performing the functions
of their vocation in the administration
of justice, because Justice to be Justice
must be prompt, as well as conform
able to the technical legal rules of
law"
In support of this assertion Judge
Prendergast referred to the system of
-tampering which had of late OBJ
tanned in Chicago, and which had led
to the fight Of Starkey. Other jury
bribers had gone, not perhaps to join
Starkey, but they had gone. The jury
system was not mistake. however
the trouble was we really had not the
jury system in Chicago The old
homely phrase of the law was that
Jurors must be selected from the body
Of the people, and this obtained in the
case of the Grand Juries, but every time
a great case had TO he tried in Cook
County it was necessary to call a spe-
cial Grand Jury, and every time a
special Grand Jury was called it wa,
a solemn warning to the public that the
ordinary methods of the law were not
sufficient 10 insure the administration
Of Justice.
at is 10y reason of the existence oil
the power TO corrupt iurie, sail ia,
speaker, that the foulest crime that
ever stained the annals of this country
ha. almost gone uuwhipped Of Justice
lie then spoke Of the last GranJ
Jury vhichiudieted che gamblers au,
said
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