The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1919, Page 6

SQUIRREL FOOD “OTTO AUTO WOULD SURELY STOP To AVOID RUNNING “THERE LADY, 19 JAPANESE COURTS WHA-ooP- WHATS ‘aT 2 INFANT ON TH’ HIGHWAY SIMPLE AND QUIET No Wrangling of Counsel Allowed and Sentences Generally Are Fair, CASES TRIED WITHOUT JURY Many Unusual Points of Difference Between American Tribunals and Their Counterparts in Japan— Minor Cases to Police, Tokyo.—A Japanese criminal court 4s almost as difficult to get into as a spectator as it is difficult to get out of as a prisoner, but there are enough un- usual points of difference between American tribunals and their counter- parts in Japan to make at least one visit instructive, if not profitable. Criminal trials in Japan are public, but not blatantly so, and idle curt- osity is not encouraged. To be per- mitted to even enter the grounds sur- rounding the court buildings one must secure the formal permission of the stern police official at the gate, and that permission {s only secured through the presentation of some good reason why the solicitor should be permitted to pass. Once past the guardian of the gate, however, one may proceed into the courtroom itself without trouble, pro vided always that he removes his hat immediately he enters the building, re- moves his overcoat, if he happens to be wearing one, walks quietly and holds his remarks and questions down to a faint whisper. In the main court: house in Tokyo, which houses the su- preme court and the various local courts, corresponding to the American circuit courts, the corridors are lined during the session by be-sworded gen- darmes. between the rows of which the one with business before the judges warily walks. No chance is lost to impress upon everyone the fact that the dignity of the law in Japan is something which must not be trifled with, Minor Cases to Police. Ordinary police court cases in Japan are disposed of in the police stations) themselves and the police inspectors! in charge have the power to exercise! 8 wide discretion, Ordinary drunks, of whom there are very few consider- ing that almost every corner grocery store and every tea house and restau- rant sells intoxicants, and there are saki shops every hundred yards on al- most every street, are simply kept long enough to sober up and are dis- charged with a stern warning, Domestic squabbles are settled by the policemen on the beats. Once he has been sent to headquar- ters a prisoner's troubles commence. As a preliminary tovall else ‘he is pho tographed and finger printed, a de- cided reversal of the American prin- ciple, which bars a man from the Fogues’ gallery until he has been con victed of a felony. From the photo graph room and the ink pad the pris. oner passes on for his “examination,” a legalized third degree, held in an un. derground room where, without bene fit of counsel, he is sweated, perhaps for several days in succession. Then after waiting his turn the pris oner goes to the local court, where he faces a bench of usually four judges, one of whom is head judge and whe does all the questioning of the wit. nesses. On the bench also sits the Prosecuting lawyer, with the lawyer for the defense occupying a desk and Seat immediately facing the head judges, Everything is solemn, everything is @ecorous and, without a jury to im- Press, there are none of those flights of oratory with which the American lawyers call upon heaven to witness either the scandalous nature of the Prisoner's crime or the halo of inno cence so plain to the attorney for the defense. The prisoners sit in a pris- oners’ box until their case fs called, when they stand one by one before the judges and ure polished off in rapid succession. Witnesses are not sworn, nor are there any bewildering laws of evidence that furnish legal arguments, grounds for appeal and keep any one from telling all that he knows and Suspects. The criminal code is that of Napoleon and the procedure is prac ticlly that of the French courts, Handling of Prisoners. The handling of the prisoners is pure Japanese, however. Delivered at the courthouse for trial, the prisoners are marched from the police wagon in Single file handcuffed and tied togeth- er by a stout rope that circles each man’s waist and is twisted through his obi, Their jail kimonos-are of a dull drab and on their sockless feet are grass sandals, in which they. flop through the corridors. The most unusual feature of all to a stranger is the fact that each prisoner has his head covered by a wicker mask, more like an inverted waste- Paper basket than anything else, the object of which is to prevent recogni- tion of the prisoner, to permit him to hide his shame under the disguise and, very possibly, to prevent the whole file from making a bolt for liberty. The sight of a prisoner so arrayed is ghastly, the mask bringing up the sug: gestion of the hangman’s cap. Once in the prisoners’ box, however, the masks are removed, while the prison- ers sit with deeply bowed heads in an attitude of the utmost huniility. Japanese courts have the name of being fair and the bench -is honest, FEDERAL FUNDS PROVIDED), FOR ONE GUARD REGIMENT Major-General J. MclI. Carter of the general staff of the United States ate North Dakota's national guard for 192 on the basis of one regiment of in- fantry and one field hospital com- pany. This would provide North Da- kota with the same organization that it had before the war. General Fras- er is of the opinion that should North Dakota make application for another regiment it would ibe granted. - PETTIBONE LODGE THIEVES CAUGHT AT VALLEY CITY Young Men Were Living High and Showing the Girls Fine Time on Loot Fargo, N. D., July 30.—Roland Pal- mer, alias Harry Palmer, and Frank Bushman, alias Frank Cushman, charged with robbery of the Pettibone lodge near Detroit, Minn., on the night of July 18, were arrested Sunday at Valley City by Chief of Police Swan- son of that city. The two men were taken through Fargo on Sunday night on No. 2 of the North Coast Limited. They spent Sunday night in the Clay county jail in Moorhead, and were taken yester- day to Detroit to face charges. The Oldsmobile stolen from a Mr. Cook of Beatrice, Neb., was recovered, and diamond rings and some of the jewelry was recovered. A. 0. Sletvold .of Detroit, county attorney for Becker county, said to- day that the men have confessed the crime. Free living at Valley City, where they put up at one of the city’s best otels, brought on their arrest. The men made free in the distribution of jewelry to girls in Valley City and lived in high style till Chief of Police Swanson routed them out of their beds early Sunday morning and put them in jail. County Attorney Sletvold an- nounced today that the men. would be taken before Judge Roesser at Detroit this week to make pleas on informa- tions that he will file charging robbery. Chief Swanson received a $100 re- ward for arresting the men. NEGRO POSES AS EX-SOLDIER BUT DOESN’T GET BY A negro with thes lower part of his right leg missing, was arrested on a charge of larceney by Chief of Police Martineson when the negro, whose name Was given as Walter Jones, could not satisfactorily explain where he pad obtained a pair of new blue over- alls, Jones, when arrested, claim to be a discharged soldier and that his leg was cut off as a result of a wound he had received in France. In. proof of his: assertion, Jones produced an honorary aischarge from the army. which seems to show unmistakable signs of having been tampered with insofar as the name is concerned. In the description on the discharge found on Jones,, he is termed “brown” ‘when he realy is a sombre black in color. ' The recruiting officer at Bismarck is investigating the matter to see what Can be done to Jones for masquerading as a discharged soldier and falsifying an honoroble discharge. According to Chief Martineson, Jones spent a considerable portion of his young life within walls guarded) by uniformed men carrying shotguns ana rifles, It is understood, the prisoner has served eight. months in a reforma- army, advises: Adjutant General Fras-! er that funds~-have been-allotted tory and that he has been arrested HAIG DECORATES U. S. HERO on y [Play Is as large asin other cities “\Jadvices from™Lt. Colonel I. F. Rogers -fshell, 37/,meima infantry gun and car- - |manders telescope, battery commanders LONDON—Major General George O. Squires, chief signal WAR IMPLEMENTS 10 BE DISPLAYED HERE AUGUST 40 Army Exhibit:of Death Dealing Instruments on View All Ah Week Through the efforts.of The Tribune and the head of the army recruit- ing station at Aberdeen, S. D., the comprehensive -war exhibit containing many of the most deadly instruments | used by American trops in France will be seen in Bismarck the week begin-;| ning August 10. Thisexhibit hag been displayed in many cities.in North Dakota, including Grand‘ Forks, Minot and Fargo and} whereyer it has been shown, dense crowds have packed 'the hall continual- ly. \It ig planned ‘to. place the exhibit in the recruiting office, oppotise the Northern Pacific ‘park, but larger: quarters. may have to be provided if the interést’shown here in the war dis- Included in the exhibit, accordi: of: Aberdeen: will be: Browning auto- matic ridié, “Browning machine gun. 4.7 sectionalized shell, 3” sectionalizes tage, 3”° Stokes ‘trench mortar, offen- sive and defensive hand grenades, rifle grenade, aiming circle, battery com- periscope, range: finder, -1! rifle, 1917 rifle, riot shot’ gun, Very ‘pistol, atito- matic pistols, shelter-tent, gas mask, and..side car, -rolling kit- give complete information and descrip- tion of each of the many articles of war so that visitors will have a com- plete idea’ of ‘how the various instru- ments were used and how they accom- plished ‘their purposes, At night, during the exhibit, the men accompanying. the dfsplay will demon- strate how a night attack was put on hy ‘the American troops against the Germans. Flares, blank’ curtridges| rockets. and other paraphenaliu of the fighting men Will be utilized to give as realistic effect as possible. The exhibit will-be free.to all and it is the Wish. ofthe ‘army. authorities that as many people -ae possible will visit the display #0-:that’ they: can ob- tain some idea; of what their sons and husbands, fought’ with’ in France. It is also. their ‘desire“to’ show the peo- ple why. wars are costly ahd how easy it. is to consume the billions: raised through. the .various, Liberty loans in fighting the enemy. RECRUITING OFFICE IS FINDING LABOR Since the army recruiting station at Bismarck has taken over the work of the federal employment service, it has placed an average of twenty men a day cn farms in Burleigh and surounding counties; according to 1st class Private John: Webb ‘today. “We. have taken up the work where the former office left off,” said Private Webb, “and we have placed almost 100 farm hands and others’ on: good Jobs aiready. Farmers, merchants, bankers and others in: citles and towns all around ‘Bismarck write’ in for farm and. harvest: hands and as tneve is a steady stream of good workers coming iuto Bismarck all the time from the drought stricken sections of western North Dakota and eastern. Montana, we can always send them farm labor the same day the request for assistance A-SLIDING SAFE ANY or OUND. HEN HER ae This bank is in‘a posi tion to render assistance to farmers of this section in connection with ‘the cultivation of land and other phases of general farming. , : As‘ a bank proapérs only as do its customers, the First National Bank is very anxious to do all in its power to promote the prosperity of Bur- leigh county’ and sur- rounding territory. Bismarck,ND. | The next time you are in Bismarck, call at the bank. We will gladly furnish any information you may desire, The Oldest and Largest Bank in this sectionof the State the number of men: they desire, the|on hand, my office can quickly provide cluss of work to perform, the length|all the mem needed. And- we always of time the job will last and the price] uiake sure that the class ‘of men sent ey will pay. With this information | out are the kind that will do the work.” - officer of the American army, has been, decorated by the hand of Sir Douglas Haig. He received the K. C. M. G.—Knight Com- mander of St. Michael and St. George. General Squires was for- merly American military attache to Great Britai: Established 1879 helmet and other articles. | is made. 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