The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-02-08
Judge Will Go to Jail
1t Won't Hurt Lindsey and the Court
Will Still Be in Contempt

JUDGE BEN LINDSEY Of Denver is going to Jail for a
year.
lie goes TO jail for contempt Of court.
in Denver charged with the murder Of
her husband Her small sou declared that he and not
mother did the killing.
The officers of the law said he lying to save his
out Of him. They failed.
The police. failing shake the boys story took him to
Judge Lindsey expert In boys and In truth and In false
hood.
Judge Lindsey says:
8" got the truth out Of that boy by lifting the spell Of
fear-promising would not bctray his confidence
Then Judge Lindsey able 10 advise the police and
prosecutors but that wasn't enough He commanded
TO take the witness stand and testify to what the boy had
told him.
He claimed he stood in the relation to the boy
that lawyer doctor priest standsa confidential
relation that the have for centuries held nvioae
The Judge Of the criminal court again ordered Lindsey
TO testify He refused and declared TO be In contempt
of court"
IF THAT BOY had paid copper cent TO lawyer as
fee" his story would have been held by the courts
have been disbared q even jailed Il he repeated it. We
say coud have In the Pckwickian scnsethat Is merely
that that's the law. hat whether 1t would stick as between
lawyers and Judges Is another story
Well anyhow, appeal, vote Of four to seven, the
supreme Of Colorado whose past record Is
On appeal to the United States supreme court II was
held echncalty. that the court could not hear the
Now he must beray the boy pay $500 or go to jail
Glory bel He elects to go to JAIL
Squea ON the boy! Never
Concede that judges honor and courts good name
be squared for $500? Neveror that Is not publicly
So he goes jail and he does service 10 court
and every Judge in the land He that judge can
public service above personal comforts duty above
venence; conscience above expedeacy and Justice above
technically.
lT NDSEY'S YEAR IN JAIL win point public attention
IL to courts, legal procedure and our jails
While he Is in Jail take notice Of some who are
not in Jail There several people he will not meet In
Jail
He won't meet Harry Thaw. who did his killing over
Ia wine table in theatre in the center OF New York.
He won't Senator Newberry, Of Michigan and his
assistants whose fellow citizens sitting jurors, found
them guilty.
the old steamship Slocum and roasted and drowned
thousand children.
lie won't find the pofitcer; the bank wrecker; nor
the stock-swindler the corporation awyer nor the
eorruper Of egsaures the seller Of doped foods and
poison medicine. He won't find anybody who Is able TO hire
sufficiently adroit lawyers and keep them hired long
enough. .
He win find the weak. the wicked, the sodden and the
sOrdd.
(Society doesn't lift her high but she get them
on the neck Of who Ii already DOWN.
And sorry he does meet In jail will marvel and
wonder what Of Judge has come amongst them
ind by contact they win be betered and will come from
Jail with faith In courts and judges and Lindsey
will Jail unsmirched and enriched with further
deeper knowledge Of the human heart and the sorows
of the unfortunate.
And the Colorado court viii stin be in contempt