LETTER TO MAGISTRATE
Curious testimonials to the general humanity of our penal system crop up from time to time, writes "Janus" in "The Spectator." The other day a London Magistrate got a letter from a man he- had sentenced a few months before as a suspected person. The writer was in a general hospital in the metropolis. He knew no one in London, and wrote to the Magistrate in a moment of loneliness telling him he was there. He promptly received a visit, for which he had not gone so far as to ask, and can count on help and support when he gets out to start life again. Obviously the incident is a considerable tribute to the Magistrate himself, but it also says something, as I have suggested, for our system of criminal justice.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 19
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135LETTER TO MAGISTRATE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 19
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