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be promptly made. 1t would SEEM
however, that a system OF code cable
grams for the verif1cation of bills OK
lading would not be very difficult
matter and would lend a great dea!
OF security to all payments on cotton
drafts. If every bill sent over were
approved by cable before 1T was PAID
1t would seem that the best OF thieves
would have difficulty in passing bad
paper on unsuspecting merchants III
England. However there is little need
to worry about this matter. wall
Street Is seldom stung and when
stung Is always quick to devise meth
cd by which it can protect itself and
If possible can sting the other fellow.
Liverpool is made on the same model.
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HOW A TRIAL CAN BE FASTENED.
Justice has seldom moved moro
quickly in New York than in the case
of Albert Wolter, who was convicted
on Friday of murder in the first de-
gree. The crime Of which Wolter was
accused was committed on March "a OF
this year. under circumstances of UNI
speakable barbarity and diabolicnl
cruelty. Two days later tho girls
half-burned ,hedy was found. and on
March 81 a warrant was sworn out
against Wolter charging him with the
murder. Within less than a month
from the time the girl was killed the
case against her slayer had been
worked up with wonderful degree
of skill, the crime had been fastened
on him and Woltcr stood convicted.
This is in striking contrast to most
of the sensational murder cases which
have filled so many columns in tho
newspapers and which have created
such excitement in New York. 1t was
two years from the time Nan Patterson
was arrested before she was acquitted,
and In the famous Molineaux case even
more time elapsed before the unfor-
tunate man was finally set free. The
Thaw case dragged on for thirty
months or Whereabouts before the man
was sent to Matteawan. In each of
these cases there was widespread re-
gret that the guilt or Innocence of
the accused could not be Immediately
demonstrated and justice satisfied.
Every one felt that where the law
delayed the law was cheated, and that
where the man at the bar could not
be convicted or acquitted justice sadly
miscarried.
In the present case the swift ven
geance of the law will be most salu-
tary. 1t was, of course, advisable on
principle that man accused of "a
capital offense should at once be
brought to justice, but it was especial
~ desirable that wolter should not
remain Indefinitely in prison. Such a
criminal as he threatened the whole
| system OF justice; such a crime as his
| menaced a great class of unprotected
I women. Justice demanded that so
! devilish crime be punished as swift
| ly as possible as warning to like
evildoers and as an example of how
| the law regarded such a crime
| This case shows how a prosecutor
who is really serious In his purpose
to convict a man whose guilt can be
| proved can override the bubbles OF
the opposition and can bring a case
| to its final hearing. If the methods
| followed by Assistant District Attor-
| ney Moss are studied by prosecutors in
all parts Of the country new lessons
in the expedition of the law will be
learned to the benefit of society and
the honor of justice. G.