Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-13

| Guiberson, helped Miller in the fight
and escaped unscathed.
Marshal Miller received word b
telephone from oreuia that five arme,
highwaymen had held up and robbie,
Patrick O'Brien In the streets OF tha
NEW YORK, April 10.-Princ
Heiie de Sagan dined In public viii
MINNIE. Anna Gould last night for tn,
first time since his arrival in Amer
lea. They were guests In the restaur
ant Of st. Regis. After dinner tn,
| prince spent the evening with Mrs
Morse and Nine. Gould. unabashee
| by the stubborn opposition of Georg,
| Gould. who asked the Paris police fol
report on his life, the prince defle:
him, and today assured his friends
| that he will continue to urge his sui,
for the hand of Nine Gould. IL an
quite easy today In my mind and con
science" said the prince. Il do not
fear anything that George Gould may
do. either as to my past or future"
The latest cases were at the GIa.
morgan Assizes. where Justice Law.
renee has been ordering the cat
more than has been done for years.
He has sentenced footpad to twenty
years penal servitude and twenty
lashes. and other sentences are seven
years penal servitude with twelve
lashes, two of five years penal seryi-
tude. each with twelve lashes, twelve
months hard labor with fifteen
lashes.
The Humanitarian league members
are up in arms. They deny that the
cat" has done more than anything
else to suppress robbery with VIC.
lence. In London, however, there are
judges and others who say that CARROT
ing was stamped out In London and
the corner man annihilated In Liver
pool by the lash. Some years ago
Liverpool was infested by band of
criminals whose depredations and
brutality alarmed the people. JUS
tice Day, known as the ''flogging jus
tice." was sent to the assizes, and
he commenced the system of lashing
the criminals.
refrained from shooting and quietly
dispersed
LONDON. April 10.-For some
time past there has been quite an cpl
demic of crime over almost the whole
of the United Kingdom. 1t is with
quite a thrill OF horror that one casts
his mind back only over the last
twelve months or so to recall the alb
normal number of brutal crimes that
have been committed, murders and
cowardly and unprovoked assaults
for the purpose of robbery But what
is the most appalling of all is the
number of cases in which the criminal
has escaped justice.
The judges OF Assize would seem to
be becoming alive none too soon to
the seriousness of the situation, and
as to how much rests upon them to
suppress, If possible temperance
OF the robber who lies In ambush for
an unsuspecting victim. and have be
gun to blend stern sentences OF i'm
prisonment with the administration of
the cat-o'-ninetails.
town and that they would likely reach
Kent within ain hour. Marshals
Miller and Guiberson started to In
tercept them. They met the men
and commanded them to halt. They
were answered by fusiIade OF shots.
In the first volley Marshal Miller was
shot in the right shoulder and abdo-
men. Marshal Guiberson fred upon
the highwaymen and they. seeing the
effect of their shots upon Miller,
turned and ran. Posses were formed
rapidly to scour the country about
Kent, and are now in pursuit of the
outlaws.
FORT WORTH, Texas, April TO-
Three hours after he had attempted
criminal assault on May Morris, a
i2-year-old white girl. at Longview,
Albert Fields. a negro, was arrested
and fully identified by the young girl
and an old negro man who came to
her rescue. After he had made full
confession he was taken to the court
house yard. a rope placed around his
neck, horse driven from under him
and he was left hanging. The mob.
which consisted of several hundred,
KANSAS CITY, April 10.-When
the conference of the Reorganized
Church OF Jesus Christ opened today.
discussion upon the question of mar
riage and divorce was continued. Ell
der II. T. Chatborn said: Some mar
riages are worse than he'll There
are many conditions to be met In the
married state which no get Of laws
can govern. To condemn for life for
ever In a condition worse than hell,
Is not right nor Just on the part OF
the church. Unless we have divine
revelation we should allow divorce on
other than scriptural grounds.
CHICAGO. April 1O.--A crowded
Metropolitan West Side Elevated rail-
road train was partly derailed and
wrecked today at Fifth avenue and
Van Buren, street, when a car dropped