CRIME RAMPANT.
CONDITIONS IN U S.A
JUDGE’S STARTLING STATEMENT. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, April 17. Judge Cavanagh. of the Chicago Superior Court, addressing an assembly of manufacturers, said £hat lawlessness in the United States to-day was unparalleled in the history of civilisation.
There were 118,000 men and women murderers at large in the United States who had never been brought to justice. During 1925 there were more than ten thousand criminal homicides, compared with a hundred in England. ‘ ‘Evil-minded men in the United States,” said the Judge, “have no re spect- for the law, because it has been their experience that they need have no fear of its penalties. The criminal knows the chances are three to one that he will never be arrested if he kills, twelve to one that he will never be convicted, and more than a hundred to one that he will not pay the full penalty' of his crime.” Judge Cavanagh recommends reform of the judicial procedure, and the abolition of tenderness for technicalities, which has encouraged and protected criminals.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 5
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178CRIME RAMPANT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 19 April 1926, Page 5
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