The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-25
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The Willimantic correspondent of the Hartford Courant says that Judge William A. Arnold of the police court lthere "has found an excellent remedy to free the locality from rounders,' police court habitues, He tells us that when a man is brought before the police court charged with intoxicatlon and brings with him a record for that offense, the judge fines him thirty days and then suspends the sentence upon lthe understanding that the offender will leave town and not reappear for year. He is entered upon the police books as an exile who is liable to ar rest the moment he reappears before the period of expulsion is, up. The correspondent adds naively that "this system has been working with great satisfaction"
 This adds one more experiment to the many which have been impulsive- fly tried to meet the problem of the police court rounder and like most of them it is an evasion of the responsi- bility involved. If Willimantic was the only city on the map of Connecti- cut and the town of Windham the only town in the State it Is possible that We might find word of eneourag cement for Judge Arnold in his determination to find remedy for this pressing nuis- ance and source of expense, but as Willimantic and Windham are parts of the State it should occur to them as a decidedly immoral enterprise to dodge their own responsibilities by un- loading them on to their neighbors. The party upon which the cost of these vagabonds falls with the greatest weight is the State of Connecticut and no benefit is derived by it in having the vagabond population transferred from one town to another The city of New Haven, provided it was divided up as MT. Pardee would like to have lit into fifteen towns, would gain mo- thing by having the rounders of one town transferred to another. The pro- blem would merely move itself about and possibly intensity the cure of it,
 The present tramp laws are to be attributed to the foolish policy of the towns of the State running tramps from one town to another. It was passing the evil on and never exterm- mating it. No advantageous steps will ever be taken to cure the evil of the rounder until the State departs from it's arbitrary notion that fixed number of days possesses the power to make law abiding citizens of lawless men. The same objection which lies against lmprisoning felon for fixed number of years, instead of an indeAn- ite number of years depending upon the behavior of the patient under treatment, lies against the pre- vailing method of sending police yagabonds to jail on tho same princi- pie. In the great majority of instances the policy works badly for all concern ed; the States expense keeps increas- ing and the rounder alternates between the jail and the nearest dram shop.
 Tn time, when the expense becomes uncomfortable, the State of Connection will begin to study more diligently and proftably the principle of the indeter- minate sentence and parole laws. Wher it does then will be introduced into the criminal procedure of the State the medicine that will either cure or justi- fly forcible and indefinite imprisonment Judge Arnold is wasting good raw ma terial