Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-08-23
This Week
ARTHUR BRlsBANE
Much Law, Little Action
He Missed Both Wives
Murder in a Blanket
Az
About Crime

he Missed Both Wives
Murder in a Blanket
About Crime
One trouble with this country /,
tnat IL has too much lawmakIng MOI
enough action. A British person
named Bretherton makes this OBJ.
~servation: mot the number or ex
ceiience OF a country's laws but the
extent to which they are obeyed Il
the real test of a civilization. In
the last ten years the United States
mas passed over five hundred thou.
and legislative enactments. In the
same period Great Britain passed
seventeen thousand. At the same
lime fifty murders are committed In
the United States to every one COM
mitted In Great Britain"
Ihe value of laws doesn't depend
10 much on the extent to which
they are obeyed" as on the extent
to which they are enforced.
John Szabo, shoemaker, had two
wives and missed them both. One
died seven years ago. He buried
them side by side, and when, sixty
I'VE years old, he missed them too
much. he shot himself so that his
body would drop on both their
graves. His request to an under
taker to bury him near them cannot
be granted That graveyard does
not accept suicides.
He Is with them now, perhaps. or
perhaps with only one, depending
on the rule concerning those that
have two or more wives In the bet
ter land. Perhaps the number does
not matter where they are lust spir.
It's How would Solomon manage?
A new kind of gang murder In
New York. A truck driver is found
wrapped In a brown blanket. His
necktie showed that as he strug-
gled he was compelled to strangle
himself. Nothing like that since 4
caliph, told of by Marco Polo, tied
q neighboring chieftain, whom he
had Just conquered, In an oriental
rug and had him trampled to death
by horses, thus avoiding bloodshed."
Governor Lehman of New York
says professional gang elements
preying upon lawful industry have
grown to such proportions that
drastic measures are Immediately
needed
Mr.. M~ul&ooney, formerly police
commissioners of New York, wants
IAN American DEVILS Island to dis
courage ~racketeers, and advocates
the use of the lash.
A grand jury official tells Sena-
tor Copeland that witnesses against
~gangsters stand before us terri
fed, perspiration standing out upon
them, afraid to speak out"
R~acketeers, 1t seems. keep spies
around the grand jury room, and
whoever talks Is quickly punished.
Mr.. Medalie, United States pros
ecutor. tells Senator Copeland, In
vestigating rackets, that he can
name four important political lead
ers In New York that are controlled
by gangsters, and work In co-opera-
ton with them.
R~acketeers, according to Mr.. Media
lie. contribute to both of the polit-
ical parties. The federal govern
ment ought to ask Mr.. Medalie
about his -four leaders"
Agents OF the United States gov
eminent are showing regular DO.
licemen" how to catch criminals and |
make kidnapping and murder unsafe.
The most important capture Ia that
OF Harvey Bailey, accused of the
wholesale massacre Of four police
officers and one prisoner In Kansas
City.
mir. Bailey had said Il shall
V be taken alive" But when,
waking from a sound sleep, he
looked into the barrel of a machine
gun he said, well, 1t looks like
It's just too bad, doesn't it?" and
offered his wrists to the handouts.
For him 1t may be much too bad,
as he La wanted for murder, con-
nected with kidnapping In Missouri.
There the penalty for either crime
Ia death, and they infiict II.
To build up a big fortune In Eng
land is to work for old John Bull.
He takes his share when you die,
the bigger the fortune, the bigger
his percentage. Sir John Reeves
Ellerman has died, leaving more
than seventeen million pounds In
cash and government securities,
and the government gets eight mil
lion six hundred thou pounds
of inheritance tax. The total es
tate will be about thirty million
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