The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-20
SHOIHn
PROTECT
JUDGE LINDSAY TELLS .,
NEWWAY OF DEALING v
WITH CRIME.
Holds that State Has Dutv ;.
Protect Criminal as Well as H.
sef-Put Love in Law and
Smother Spirit of Revenge ths
Only Way.

Put love in the law, smother -.
spirit OF revenge, of retaUation 'ue
hate, and remember that tbero Oh
duty to the individual, as we'll ~
the state" said Judge Ben B Ifnds, !"
OF Denver, at Seattle Monday nias.
1T has been only a few years sins su''
boy who stole the grain sacks in ~,
barn to get money enough to % =.
the circus was arrested as crimin.,
The whole proceeding was to nrota..
the sacks, not the boy. However w.
great problem of today is to save th ho
boy, the girl, the young woman th o
adult. '"'
"Just few days before I left 10,
yer woman who is employed in ,
department store was arrested 70.
stealing SIS. She was about to no sr
raigned in the criminal court H0,
case was investigated. It was found
that the father of family of seven
children. had been squanderinp his
earnings in gambling house at which
the police of Denver had winked. The
mother was both the home maker and
the bread winner and life had been
terrible struggle. We did not seek 70
avenge the law, to retaliate, but to
save the woman. OF course. il was
not right to steal the SIS, but We
owed the woman duty as well as the
state.
Not Altogether to Blame,
"The other day number of BOYS
were brought into court charged with
stealing. They had been playing
along the railroad track with a gang
of which they had been members for
some time. They were mere boys
but they were thieves. Were they al
together to blame? No.
"We had not provided Fairgrounds
for them. We had not aided them in
leading upright lives. We were to
blame in a great measure for their
condition.
"A few years ago young fellow
was arres ted in the foothills after
revolver duel with the officers He
was taken to Jail in shackles. The
law was his greatest enemy. | went
to the Jail to see him. AS entered
his cell he glared at me as if to ask
WI o.
names of his companions, when he
said, I'm no snitz.' No. said |, you
are the kid that's on the square His
face frightened. 1t was the first time
that confidence had been shown in
him. I asked the jailer to bring him
to my chambers. He at first objected,
saying that the boy had escaped thlr-
teen times. However, he brought him
to see me and left us alone in tne
room, after warning me that ne nad
been watching the fire escape on the
way over. I began to question him.
Tell me of your first trial. | said
"'Well, judge" he replied the cop
he brings me into de court and ne
tells de judge a whole lot more al
1 did. De Judge believes de cop oil
he says, The Jail fer yours 1t tooA
de judge jest three minutes TO pu'
me down and out
Trusts the Prisoner.
81 began to talk to him. l told nin
that l wanted to help him, when IL
said: so you're not agin' me, Juase'
told him l was going to trust nw,
and wanted him to 60 back to the jan
alone. -,
$50 you're going to trust me, n'
said, with a surprised look on dis iasu,
when he started out OF the ioOl
alone, the desperate burglar, i, co..
lied what a chance was taking Da
I remembered that he had broken .: ,n'
thirteen times, and if l lost tnis 'iu
had twelve more chances. HOWE, .,o
I did not fail. He went BACK " '"
Jail reformed man. ..dod
"The legislature that just en sat.
gave Colorado a probation law iDss
ing a new application OF the pr,n. ar;m.
of the chancery courts to aauil s
inals. It applies only to mlsdelne4sn fret
cases and is believed to De tn'
law of it's kind. ,-,ot;on
"Under the new law the Sd first
of Mary who stole the So is " The
rather than the -" - the
petition is in the civil division , ~
court having chancery Jurlsu'pe Don
and the petition is entitled ln ..h In
pie in the Interest OF Mary 0 have
the criminal division it Wou'u Mary
been The People Agalns'