English Justice Sure Writer Compares British and American Courts
Cassilly Cook of New York Bar argues English criminal procedure is swift and impartial as a model for the United States. He cites Crippen case details, reformatories, per capita murder rates, and the small cost of English justice, urging U.S. lawmakers to adopt similar methods.
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Cassilly Cook
New York
Great Britain
Crippen
Whitelaw Reid
London
Charles W. Matthews
England
Dr. Crippen
Ethel Leneve
Cook
New York City
United States
Erigland
Modela
Alverstone
Mr. Cook
America
City Bulentins Convert League elects officers
The Catholic Convert League of Washington elected officers for the coming year. Names include Hon. W. C. Robinson honorary president J. E Col ion president I Hartigan CF Ferris J Hammond J J King Mrs Margaret Coope L E ML Miss Mary Quinn Miss Mabel I. Knixht Julia Y W Lasky treasurer J Setwin Tate secretary L O Schetky.
Catholic University forms St John Chrysostom Society
Cardinal Gibbons supports a new Catholic University literary group to study historical and liturgical questions of oriental churches. The Rev Dr Waschalde prepares an edition of the Book of the Union by Abbot Mar Babai, a key Syriac work on Christology. Officers include Mer Thomas J. Shahan as president and Henry Hyvernat as vice president.
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Vaschalde
Cardinal Gibbons
St. John Chrysostom Society
Catholic University
Wie
Waschalde
Department of
Mar Babai
Historians of the East
New Society
Mer. Thomas J. Shahan
Henry Hyvernat
Paul Sandzigi
Endowed Chairs Needed to Bridge Washington University Deficit
George Washington University faces operating deficits despite salary cuts and tuition revenue. President Rear Admiral C H Stockton urges local support to endow professorships until the university regains financial stability. Trustees review a greatly reduced indebtedness and pledge to sustain policy while seeking more funds.
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Seat of Learning
Board of Trustees
Stockton
Nation of Murderers sermon targets war and capital punishment
Rev Zed H Copp denounces war and capital punishment in a Bethany Presbyterian Chapel sermon on Murder. He calls America a nation of murderers, critiques press complicity, and advocates a world court and world police force to manage nations.
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America
Zed H. Copp
Bethany Presbyterian Chapel
Mr. Carnegie
ELOPERS AWAIT Bless You in Virginia Romance
Mr and Mrs Benjamin Lambert eloped from Harrisonburg Virginia and married in Washington on Saturday. Mrs Lambert hoped for forgiveness from her mother and grandparents but received none. The couple, welcomed by friends with telegrams, plan to stay in Washington several days and may move to Covington Virginia if forgiveness is not granted.
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Ben Lambert
Benjamin Lambert
Harrisonburg
Washington
Mrs. Lambert
Cadet Corps Draw Fire From Mrs Lockwood on War and Peace
Mrs Belva A Lockwood, Suffragette and former presidential candidate, told about 190 Washington Secular League members that statues of war heroes in public spaces inflame warlike thoughts in youth and hinder universal peace. She urged removing war statues and disbanding school military groups, praising science and literature figures instead. She also criticised Taft's Panama Canal fortifications and warned against militarism, with Anna McLaurin Smith endorsing pacifism and predicting aeroplane advances will outpace forts.
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League
Taft
Panama Canal
Army
Belva A. Lockwood
United States
Washington Secular League
Lockwood
Washington High School
Boy Scouts
Bat Ues
Deuce
Washington High Schdgly
Hoy Scout
England
Anna McLaurin Smith
Ben Greet on Passion Play at Belasco Theater
Distinguished actor manager Ben Greet of the Ben Greet Players spoke at the Belasco Theater on the Passion Play of Oberammergau. He traced the drama from medieval pageants to the Elizabethan era and used colored views to illustrate his talk amid a large audience despite bad weather. P. H. Sheehy, Pioneer Grocer, Dead. Funeral services for P. H. Sheehy will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 10 tomorrow morning with high mass conducted by Father Marr. He was born in Tieland 79 years ago and had led P. H. Sheehy Company, wholesale grocers, since 1848. survived by his wife and eleven children. Emile Francois, 61, an inmate at the Government Hospital for the Insane, escaped yesterday from the grounds and remained unfound late last night.
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Belasco
Ben Greet
Oberammergau
Greet
P. H. Sheehy
T Street Northwest
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Father Marr
Mr. Sheehy
Tieland
Seventh Street
Florida Avenue
Oldest Inhabitants’ Association
Emile Francois
Government Hospital For
Elizabeth
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