The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06
VAMPING JUDGE
FAILS TO WORK
Juries May Fall for Lure
But Bench Is Beyond
Influence
HK MARGERY REX.

NEW YORK, March Gan a
judge be yampcd?
Wuon pr katherine y Davis
NoW iork's former commissioner of
correction, told Philadelphia the
other day that Judge Is but mere
bit ~ iniudlDious WayFwh,nh mclts
before tho warm gaze Of a feminine
offender a low moan was heard TO
come from the Liberty bell II did
seem for moment 10 mean the end
Of WOmCn's rights rather her priv
llcgcs.
Il have seen many pretty girl
dressed iu fine clothes escape with
% light sentence or gain her freedom
by smiling at the Judge Doctor
Davis said. and added that the baby
stare was cffi,aciOus in making
crime lose It's meaning as far as the
court was concerned.
At which Independence hal. shud-
dcrcd TO It's very foundation OF FREQ
dom and several of the judiciary Of
the city Of Brothcrly Love talked
back
Judge Raymond McNcillc, Of the
municipal court, says that VI even
tho queen Of Shcba over comes to
rnny 20 commit her crimes her
good morning, judge would have
no more pull with him than II the
greeting were passed by a sober
Mennonite maid or n demurc little
Quaker. garbed in gray.
what New York Judges Say
The question OF the Shcban Queens
/ future standing ip a Philadelphia
| court having been defined, IL come
| what loosely, we turn to what obser-
| vations OF women prisoners and liti'
| gants two New York supreme court
| judges have culled from years of cN-
! pcripnCC.
one OF them, Justice John Ford
/ defends women and her wilcs, yet
makes It clear that the only com
plcte Judgment Of a woman Is that
verdict which comes from members
OF her own sex.
/ who knows? who can tell when
a woman is employing her wilcs.
Sh? Wen, another woman. per
haps!
! Davis replies that he couldn't b,
vampcd by the queen OF Sheba'
consider that an cgotlstical state
mCut for any modern Judge to make
because old Judge solomon sue
cumbed 10 the wilcs Of that lady
you know
Il suppose there never was mar
yet. from s. Anthony down, wh'
was not Influenced by womcn'i
beauty. lie may be entirely un
conscious Of Il. too.
IL have always advocated the
presence OF women on jurics. par
tiCularly in cases where there are
women Witnesses or where either o'
both parties to the suit are women.
Eriangcr for Women Jurors.
i Like treatment to insure justice
for women Is recommended by Su
prcmc Court Justice Mitchell l.. Er
LANCER who believes in the woman
Juror. lie said:
In my opinion no woman
whether plaintiff or defendant, ha
ever succeeded by her arts or beaut'
in influencing any iudgc.
Jurors have been influenced b'
sympathy I'm favor of women, bu
tho records of our courts show tina
whenever such n result was reachc'
and I am now speaking OF ciNi
cascs-the verdict has been Sc
aside on the theory that chivalr,
has not yet been engraftcd on tn
laws " our state.
There Is no separate justice 70
women
They are treated exactly as th
male sex is,
d "Ir results can be brought ahou
b by such means az Doctor Davis sug
rcsts. the fault lies with tho jury
, The only remedy Is 20 empanel
Jury Of women who will judge thci
sex strictly in accordance with tn
merits OF the claims