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AoE 8 • WAS A TTtNClO 220 FuWJlAlS• . | f«* m W». ♦ »* * —’ —fH€w OrleansFaytttg # ICwAHuman Side of The News- By Edwin C. Hill\\'F. ARE SHOCKED by latter-day perversions of Justice. racketeers getting free. sensational‘‘circus trials, and shady lawyers tricks. We bemoan the lost dignity and puissance of the law. It might be worse—in fact it has been. The death of Pat Crowe, shaky old Bowery bum. who 33 years ago kidnaped Edward Cudahy. Jr. in Omaha, Is a reminder of a trial which makes the mostraff, h of our modem court room work-outs a model of propriety and just procedure m comparison,Crowe collected a S25 000 ransom and disappeared Five years later he surrendered at Butte. Montana He all but confessed the kidnaping and the state had enough evidence to sink a battle-ship The jury, after arguing seventeen hours,brought in a verdict of “not guilty. Pat went h.s %say and .n h** old age cadged a living with h.s tear-jerkmg story of the reformed kidnaper who would save souls and rid the world of crime,If he ever did a days work, it is nowhere on record. He cashed in both on sin and repentance.The explanation of that verdict is an interesting item in the history of these democratic states Tin* fifteen-year-old Cudahy boy was the heir to the Cudahv meat-packing fortune That was the nay when old -Blood-to-the-Bndle-Reins' Waite, governor of Colorado. “Sockless Jerry Simpson of Kansas, and the lady who was urging the farmers to “raise more hell and less com ail were going strong n the western farm belt Like tumbleweeds in a gale the haired of big corporations was sweeping the prairies What this Omaha Jury particularly hated was meat-packers. Crow e s admissions and all the ev i-dence melted like a snowball in the heat of that prejudice Crowe had threatened to burn the boj s eyes out with acid if he didn t get the money, •there were no extenuating orrumst antes. no plea of insanity, no faulty indictment no legal k*»p-hole of law or fact The jury hated meal-packer*. *fhat was all there was to it Previously, Crowes accomplice James Callahan, a f« rm^r railroad brakrman had been caught and tried and acquitted for the same reason.The return engagements played In the courts by racketeers whi, in the meantime, are dosog bii;mess at the sam** «*ld stand, has been a disquieting detail of modem law enforcement Bed this no dodbt assessable to venal lawyers and politicians has an entirely d.fferent clinical aspect from the Crowe case No longer do we find inflamed social issues stdetwipmg juries as d.din the Crowe trial, the Moyer. Hey wood and Peiti-bone trial m Montana and other great criminallaw tourneys of an earlier day.J Edgar Hoover, the G-man has done much to tut law enforcement on its merits He has not found it necessary to explore the intangibles of class, race or sectional prejudice as possible per*verier* of law With our unique and growing, American system of blue ribbon juries we ara isolating law enforcement from bigotry and prejudice What troubles us now' is the durable old • fix ** which Mr Hoover has found is apt to be in, now as in yesteryear. Progress has been made in that. too. and in my opinion there has been a definite and encouraging advance in law enforcement since the boom days of thuggery at the peak of the bootlegging eraThomas E Dewey hat signalised f r America the social and political therapy of slamming this or that crook into the hoosegow, rather than m merely waving the flag and hymning the founding fathers. Not only in New York, but in a half dozen other states, the election camoatgn has hinged on specific. localized, issues of political malfeasance, of th#* putative alliance of politicians w.th gang-*;ercs In the view of this onlooker, this is one of the most salutary and hopeful political turns of many years It is undeniably true that big-Citv political machines have chided into put la v gangs, sometimes so subtly ‘hat none could tel where one ended and the o her began parties have invoked high prirwplw jrut they Lve done busmens with the boss in the backIt msv not be polite to r-nnt. but just now there is a lot of rude .peciLcal on of i^litic*»-crim nal skulduggery and from where we sit it. !oox I something to chc -r about It h a mm _ ■trast to the wordy and windy r*mpaipin«arn,nd the tom *»f the century, which eou-d kirk up prejudice capable of prying loose a kidnaperTelling YouFAMOUS LINES Siegfried.MagitiotMinnesota.*Pbe sweet cider mei I H. but we wouWn tbe surprised if it proved pretty h«rd f«r s mr of the boysAn industrial writer says that purchase **f * shirt gives employment to fifty persons Now you can understand h*»w all those pms got there.The depression increased counterfeiting 100 per cent, according to a crime statistician. Even the saxaphone players are busy turning out false notes.First Japanese General—Well, how did things go with your division yesterday ’Second Japanese General Oh. 50-50. We bust the battle but we saved the fateMnko Men Sissies?
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Valley Morning Star
Harlingen, Texas, US
Sat, Nov 12, 1938
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