Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-17
Canadian Detective Sees Much
That Amuses in Americas
Ideas of Justice.
MURDERER OR BRAKEMAN
Quotes His Countrymen In Presenting
Noteworthy Ideas--Delighted
With Salt Lake.

Columbia police. traveller and man-of-
the-world generally, who tracked Fran
cesco Ciddio for year. finally landing
him in this city. although he had new
err seen the Italian. is q great student
of countries and people. Mr.. Dewitt
has been In Salt Lake since the 2sth
of january and finds much here to in
terest him. While busily engaged IN
the case which brought him here. he
has found time to 20 about the city,
meet its people and see its points of
interest.
ORGAN Is WONDER.
There Is one thing you have which
surpasses anything I have ever seen or
heard and that is the organ in the
tabernacle 1t is wonderful he says.
when | go back to British Columbia
and people there ask me about the
Mormons. an they VIII, / will tell them
hadtne chance of becoming acquainted
with their religion. but heard the music
from their tabernacle organ and any
people who would arrange such excel
lent measures TO get sublime music
must be truly great and good,
salt Lake Is a wonderful city, how
ever. | wish I could be here in the
summer tire. ! imagine there is no
place more beautiful Oh. tell you
am enthusiastic over this city,
LIFE CHEAP HERE.
something about my own country?
Well. you know of its beauty Per-
haps something about its police system
and legal methods would be as inter-
esting as anything l might say.
THE administration III justice In
Great Britain as compared to the Unit
ed States Is at present a subject OF
much comment. and here In this great
commonwealth, where every man Is
free under the law, justice often mis-
carries. A recent writer remarked that
II Is safer TO be a murderer In this
country than to be n railroad brakeman,
because the death-rate among murder
ers Is lower. MI Sydney Brooks In the
London Chronicle states that In the
United States a verdict against the
prisoner at the bar is one thing. car
rylng 1t out Is quite another Mr.
Brooks goes on to say, Any American
who can afford to engage lawyer may
commit murder with almost complete
impunity. The odds are rather over 10 &c
| / against his being executed. Criminal
statistics of the United States go 10
show that In the last 20 years the pro-
portion OF murders to population Is
positively on the Increase; that In Mexi-
co alone are more murders committed
than In the United States; that IN the
last two decades they have multiplied
fvefold, and that the number of exe-
cutions during the same period has vir-
tualiy remained stationary-less thai
100 per annum for an average or wv
murders .fhe
In support OF his arraignment OFF,
criminal tribunals of this eountrn.h.
quotes Mr.. Taft's remark that Nv
administration OF the criminal ~ ~
ali the states In the Union is tsgrace
TO our civilization" The fir e"use
of this paralysis of justlc, .mg m
nuence OF the press, he thu pssoiioeS'
PRESS FREE'oM
mo article is spare by the Ameri-
can Journals to rousepreluulee Tor or
against the pr-isonerui ,sres,s rh.,
which the public ,, 80. A.,
evidence is commhVsr oedo,, ana ~,
70 nhy ~'en tnnosh nothing more seri-
rest'ain. "s AXE than a favorltes
Jus Jus ~ a trothg match. Contempt OF
lot., =" LEE America, IL at all. mere
so"ns ia,i Action, No attempt IL
,! ~ stthe by Judge or counsel TO
..s,o,n into fact. The press Is
, r,"d nout judicial decency and
foits nlay 10 Tpuhc IluHhloHNt CpuiuHh
,aa,,, smulate the utmost partially
20 sa,,t tant, and create the conditions
10, least favorable TO the dis PEN
sation justice, without word either |
az ' ntfial or of popular protest
BATTLE OF WITS.
.,,e second cause Is the 'perversIon |
90 .,oedure' OF which he writes: Be
%. everything else the breakdown OF
~ American criminal law Is To be
nd IN the worship and perversion OF
oedure. Americans have magnined
technloalities OF the law until JUS
z has been thrown into the back
round and lost sight OF. In "A criminal
ase In the United States Il is the Judgs
m the bench and not the prisoner in
he dock. who If really on trial. The
,ounsel on both sides polish up thou
,and little POINTS OF pleading practise
md evidence ana frs them on at the
udgo, who has 10 decide upon them
II 10 falls into a single Error
no matter low trivial or how FAR re-
moved from the question OF the guilt
or innocenca OF the accused, the am
pellate oourtwill order a new trial or
the case almost automatically Hence
the criminal aw is refuge ana a COM
fort to the layer and the criminal. ana
a menace tuhe rest OF the commun-
ity."
THE lANADIAN WAY.
ufrhe naturalization OF tha ,,,,,,..,..