The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-11-16

N4N htia tNAh tiNN WIFI
droop og the head
iuhu she said a. she igrue
20 the utiie boy ~ hcr side tel
the truth nov DID your athe
strike met
The boy nodded h@ head. an'
the father turned aside with tear
running down BE cheek ana al
q bis hrasado gone Every pcrsoi
ia the room believed be- was guilt
aud those familiar With the ola pro
cedure could realize that hv woult
have made fair ease Of reasonable
donh' II il had not been for %,
"confrorlo,
Another case Was that Of mal
and woman indicted for selling 90
caine The eomplalnihg witness
who adnitted be was addicted te
the drug changed his story as told
originally and he police captain
confronted him with the story told
AZ the time Of the arrest
"But object 10 an this as hear
say evidence" said the defendant
lawyer.
Let him so ahead aud We win
find out what The truth is. said
Judge Scott You can trust the
Court not TO convict any ore on inn
proper or illegal evidence But VIC
must not try TO suppress the truth
Deceived by Clients.
But my clients told me so aud
so and believe them. said a Young
lawyer.
When ! was your age ! was Of
len deceived BY my clients, replied
the Judge u remember one case
where | wept very hard and real
tears, but the jury convicted my
client later found that he was
guilty
During the disposition OF all the
cases there We're no long cross-ex-
aminations by the lawyers, who, in
fact, had very little to say or do.
The prosecutor stood at the bar,
ordinarily between the accused and
the witnesses, but he rarely interro-
gated witness. lie acted entirely
as an aid to the Court, if necessary
reading previous testimony and al
ways trying. with the Judge, to get
at the truth.
Il want to consider this case
a little longer" said Judge Scott af-
ter hearing evidence against man
charged with a serious crime #
| find he Is guilty will send him
TO prison for fifteen years, but !
could not do that on the evidence
before me
Il don't agree with you regard
ing the force of some Of this evil
dence, said the District Attorney,
as he called attention TO statements
made by Police Captain and the
accused as 10 what the latter said,
Either one could be mistaken
and could not convict man on
that 80; the man has a good ap-
5eafance, and there is no evidence
that would warrant me IN convict
ing. will hold the case open for
a Week
No stenographer was present al
the proceedings, and the only min
ltos were kept by the clerk in long
hand, after the method in Italian
.rals, which was little more than a
record OF the witnesses.
What would a defendant do il
be wanted to appeal from your de-
cision?" Judge Scott was asked
"They don't want 20 appeal. Nc
innocent defendants are convicted
by this method. and in that way al
least il has the advantage over the
stiff Anglo-saxon procedure, There
s too much of the mock heroic IL |
he old way when witness woule
Kiss the Bible and then tell his
story. Another would be called |
md tell story contradicting IL
very detail the first one One Of
he witnesses committed perjury
rhen many times by holding to the
nflaAlble rules Of evidence the law
,ers Nould prevent the truth from
,eing told. The jurors would make
guess at what was truth. Now
when the witnesses face the accused,
md be has to face the men who
make the charge against him, ii
Ion't take very long to tell where
he truth is, 7
DO the people approve Of this
method Of disposln Of criminal
ases2'
Well, they seem to. We get
long with one judge here, while in
hudson and Essex counties, undei
he old system. TWO are kept busy
fore 'han ninety-five per cent OF
he persons charged with crime elect
D dispense with the jury, and II Is
aid around here that no one but 8
uilty man ever asks and insists up
n bis constitutional right Of trial
y jury Of his peers II does away
18th costly appeals, which you have
i New York. Il is true that in
,me jury cases an appeal il taken,
ut have had only one case re-
srsed ia ten years"
DO you think the system Is in
ny way deterrent 20 crime? Ii
Well. We used 70 have Black
aud cases With this system We
,nyicted The witnesses faced tht 7
.cused and there was no one IN
Ia back part Of the room making
e death sign. Those convicted
celyed long sentences. and We
We NOT had d Black Hand ease Ii 5
ur or five years. Ii,
No More Knife Fighters.
ln Pasaaic there IS a foreign col. Il