Smyrna times., 1916-12-06
l1IFNENT TO ABOLISH
GlLLOVS IN DELAWARE
.-,rweNT TO BE MADE AT
' W.T. SESSION OF LEGISLATURE
- Give Judges More Latitude in
Wv o,... Demanding Real Mercy.
's,Y c.o,,ioned by Bar and Citizens

Cases Demanding "eo'
Sanctioned by Bar and Citizens
r.Ilow.nO methods that would do
~, N the most modern and up-to-
40 business houses have been adopted
7 tbe 1916 grand jury to bring about
ircorporation into law of the novel
y I.mmendations it made about two
,.E, ago. when it handed up its
~ nresentment to the Court of Cen
i Sessions. The most important
] these recommendations was one to
. ..li.b in Delaware the use of the
] .Ilous and rope method of capital
s,,i,bment and to substitute for it
4 1. If the "more advanced and hum
. ,.n methods which have been discus
a bv criminologists and scientists.
Ne grand jury of 1916 thinks more
! Iits work than to permit such a
sipg to happen to its ideas and while
"a
vas at work decided to arrange
4 ast its recommendation should be
allowed up. To that end the fore
man, T. Allen Hilles, appointed a
sumittee of the jurors to attend to
Z be matter.
Call on Bench and Bar for its Approval
These committeeman, Joseph H.
Ho;snger, of Newark; Richard A.
Vbittingham, also of Newark; L.
Scott Townsend. Charles C. Speakman
md Henry NJ. Lang, of Wilmington
net Saturday at the Hotel dupont and
discussed ways and means to prose-
/ ate the work assigned to them Mr..
4 EOssnger was unable to be present
o scrOunt of illness, and Mr.. Town
L end was out of the city on business /;
hut the comm ittee met nevertheless
Eith Mr.. Hilles in attendance as an
q EOficiO member. Decision was
reached to begin at once the prepara-
4 ton Of bills covering all the recon-
nendatiOns contained in the present.
8neut and to enlist the services of
hWyers interested in the suggestions
d y draw them. Then the committee
ErpOsed to carry the follnw-up idea
hHber. The bills as prepared will
Aahmitted to the bar generally for
lfs approval and TO the bench OF the
State for its support of the measures
WIEN they are taken before the COM
ing session of the Legislature.
More Latitude Given Judges to Decide
Along with this the committee will
iaOmmend on the advice of the
d pand Jury that judges be given the
q hgnt to decide in first degree mur-
'G cases, whether the convicted
nuFderer shall suffer death or be
Imprisoned for life. The jurors felt
usL as such elective liberty is giver
ue bench in certain other classes o1
aptal Otfenses it should also be giver
anfSt degree murder, particularly
were conviction is accompanied by {
'SOnmendation of mercy. Under tht
rssent statute the judges have NJ
'Dlce but to sentence a person con
''!e OF murder of the first degre,
" ueatn. The recommendation mex
Il Importance to be embodied in a bill
~ relation to the elimination from
o'nefal Sessions of petty larceny case
I0agn the grading of the crime o
@lCsay into grand and petty an,
u -ulng the latter entirely into tn
-'ef courts. This would do ava
''0 the consideration by the gran
Hy Oh host Of minor cases that yer
~ could be heard and disposed of i
suGlpsi Court and by the residen
'auSss IN Sussex and Kent sitting a
I~l'ting magistrates, withou
.--" Much time and labor woul
honey.
q S''nendation Aimed at Drug Evil
v'nef recommendations of the pre-
pent will be turned into bills are
q s.. ,''On by the State of an institr
~ iof the feeble-minded, for whic
NJ. s now inadequate provision
.s. III. tne law against the sale {
,.'iOtmIng drugs be amended {
r..' include additional drugs and
a iS eooe tne penalty from a maximnl
,s,,. .'O or one year to 50, 600 or fl,
n,.s:. amending the law so as
Il prisoners wanted in other stat,
M, ave al requisition if they so cleo
4 ctr "''ness fees in the Wilmingto
! b :, TOuft be increased from so cen
d. ~ .a.s DAY, and that in State cas-
III ~ Oe borne by the county.
81 rorkers at "Spruance City
Iii, = S; u the biggest hcgs butchered
q osO.a aIlnity this season were tho
GDssn oy Walter McClain, familiar
Ops -, a' Ducksy" of Spruance Cit
nd n. Spped p, the scales at 4O5 poun
Nary llr;. -