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and cooperation of the superintendent
of the city hospital.
Recovery for Personal Injury or Prop
erty Damage.
The criminal code is absolutely
silent upon the question of recovery
for loss or damage to property and in
juries to the person growing out of
criminal acts except that in cases of
malicious trespass the court may fine
defendant sum equal to twice the
amount of the property damaged and
because of his failure to pay the same,
to place the additional burden on the
citizen of supporting him in the work.
house or Jail, seems in itself an abb
surdity. AS part of the probation
plan the court requires every person
charged with an offense involving the
loss or damage to property and in
juries to the person to make full and
complete restitution to the injured
party before the final disposition of
the case. Upon proper showing that
restitution has been made, the court
is then in a position to take such &C.
ton as the other facts in the case
justify. Under this plan more than
$4,000 has been recovered and turned
over to the proper parties.
Like all innovations connected with
matters pertaining to the police, it
was first looked upon as fad and
predictions were freely made that be-
cause of the nature of the work and
the rapidity with which it must be dis
charged, the life of the plan would be-
short. But notwithstanding the criti-
cism, it has become established as a.
permanent method of dealing. with the
delinquent women of the city.
"Out of 478 cases investigated under
direction of the court matron, only ~
were fined or committed to the Jail or
correctional department Of the wom-
ans prison and in the remaining cases
the investigation disclosed that the
facts would not justify imprisonment
and the court either suspended the
sentence or withheld judgment.
"An cases involving domestic
trouble have been added to the spe--
cial work brought into the separate
session. AS result of the investiga-
ton of 1923 Of these, less than Is per
cent of the offenders were committed
to the Jail or the workhouse. In the
majority the court has withheld iudg-
ment and the defendant has been re-
quired to take the pledge and the wife
has been directed to furnish the court
with written report on the first of
each month as to the conduct of the
offending husband.
Summary.
Since January 8, 1910, the court
has disposed of 43,S81 cases. It would
be impossible to convey through the
medium of this paper the results that
have been obtained in the transaction
OF this stupendous amount of business
through exercising friendly interest
in these unfortunates.
Financially considered there has
been a great saving to the county in
the cost of maintaining it's penal in
stitutions in that there has been re-
duction Of so per cent in the number
of commitments; s27,41OOO has been
collected from probationers who, be-
cause of inability to pay under the old
method, would have been committed
to the Jail or workhouse; and there
has been gain of $3,144.75 to the
common school fund.
+ THE results of a system of Justice
are not to be measured wholly by dol
lars and cents. The reports to the
court show that home conditions have
improved; that men have abstained
from the use of intoxicating liquor;
that employers have been enlisted in
taking more friendly interest in en-
ployees; that many have Joined
churches, and in other ways have
added to high standard of living.
ITO administer Justice properly the
presiding judge should earnestly en-
deavor to distinguish between the de-
hnquent and the criminal-the &C.
casional and the chronic violator of
the law; and to give sufficient time
for careful Investigation of the merite
OF each case. and to see that while
the community is protected, the rights
OF the individual. especially of the
poor and ignorant and uninfluential
individual. be not overlooked"
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