The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-24
!, srs IN JURISPRUDENCE

r-,nInals, and the Camorra. BY
TTain. formerly Assistant Dis
y, Y ,inrney. New York County, PUB
nv Charles Scribners Sons. New
.,o is more competent 10 write
Ike this than is Arthur Train.
keen lowyer and an expert
ritter. His previous books, as
ronfessions of Artcmas Quib-
IHTrue Stories of Crime and
prisoner at the Bar testify
,sual knowledge as well as TO his
as a writer. This present work
;ded into three parts, Courts, -
.;rals.u - and "Tho Camorra. -
~ the title of "Courts. the
considers "The Pleasant Fiction
presumption of Innocence, -
rayinp Criminal Case for
~ and "Senscatiopalism and
Trials" The fiction of the
nution OF innocence has utterly
4 Oh two counts; first, the Off
10 not regard 1T, they know pro-
al criminals, and very properly
10 not consider them innocent.
A there is no sense in giving to
dsssional criminal the same pre-
|Iiou of innocence that is given
solid. law-abiding citizen, who is
"a standing, and has never been
q to commit a crime. IN fact the
|nption in the two cases is ex-
lie opposite, and ought to be so,
'ip the case of balbitual crimi-
.;he natural presumption is that
guilty, and not innocent. The
q divisions Of this part, ''Pre.
q Criminal Case for Trial. and
|,ationalism and Jury Trials" are
nasoned.
'the part entitled Criminals. f"
,bapter headings are "Wby Do
Xiii" "Detectives aud Others,
Detectives Who Detect. - These
chapters arc keenly written, and
d fire enjoyment to the reader.
final division, 1.-The Camorra. -
Isss not only the great C'amorra
bat the conditions in Italy which
The formation of that aud other
~ societies, and the proceedings
coIrt which tried the offenders
bed them well and fairly. After
|eal discussion of the situation in
Tie author proceeds to point out
|MeYence between the funda.
D principles of the Roman law
n The Anglo-Sarou law. Under
imam law officials are expected
Dceed with the investigation of
sud the punishment OF crinli.
E q public function. aud their
duty. In the Anglo Saxon law
lg more or less personality en-.
In it. and the contest is apt 10
y partly a personal contest be.
the complainant and the de-
With respect to the trial Of
smorrists, which lasted so long.
Ifsin, who was a spectator at
thal, emphatically states that
|as never in his legal experience
Judge preside with greater cour-
Whence. fairness, or ability, or
& as a general rule. under all
80 perfect q control
be court, as the president of the
"a which the prosecution of the
7s is being conducted; nor is he
y with any legal procedure bet.
ted TO ascertain the truth Of the
} being tried This is high
not only to the court. but to
law; and there is no doubt but
his IS the proper view TO take
& trial The American uewspa.
|hich undertook TO make sport of
bal proceeded on inadequate in.
bon; the eablegrams giving only
1unRl occurrences or incidents,
as Mr.. Train states. arc by no
lacking at times in American
SO that so far from pluming
Fes upon something better than
e!iau procedure, We are in fact,
ding under a different system,
p. which is by no means assur.
estter than the Italian proceed
His analysis of al this is a Joy
book is fine one, excellent in
way.