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a 4 N U ‘4 bmmitted a A, ( STL TV ——— juries of Men Won't Convict Women and Women Won't Con- vict Men, so Both Go Scot Free. aan? a “National No- !SMurder Week” Ap- pears to Have Little Possible Value as a Remedy. By Montague Glass. T seems, Mawruss, that the only way nowadays for de- tecatives to discover who murder is for the murderer to make an ap- pointment for the detecatives to meet him and the victim at the scene of the crime and for all of them to " keep it,” Abe lotash remarked the other day, hich the time has gone by when E> Ym detecative could be given a but- iy (: >] De De pn from the murderer's shirt and up in ten minutes at the near- Police station with the shirt Md the murderer inside of it.” “Them bygone times only ex- ted in detecative stories, Ab Norris Perlmutter said, “which if his here Sherlock Holmes had lesen working for the New York alice Department, y’understand, ls would have been sued so many s for false arrest that after THE EVENING WORLD’S HAS MURDER BECOME CONVICTION-PROOF ? CROOK that sm: jewoller's window and steals a dosen dia- “A mond rings will prob- ably explain to his connelence, If he has any, that ho's learning a lesson to the community not to make a vulgar display of diamond rings.” “Murderers seem to be very re- tiring, and it would be practically impossible to get t to march in & parade or wear butte! Then, maybe, the detecatives would do the marching and the button-wearing.” the first two chapters he wouldn't have had money enough left to buy himself so much as a five- grain aspirin tablet, let alone an outfit of dope needles.” “Sure T know, Mawruss, bot there onght to be some sort of detecative which Is a happy medium between de- tecative story detecatives and police department detecatives that the au- thorities could ick onto murderers, Abe said, “otherwise the Government might Just go well issue shooting l- censes for bootleggere and declare open seasons on rectors In New Jer- vey, because the way It ls now, Maw- rus, murder ain't @ erime jn this country, It's 4 sport." A MOTIVE IN THE ELWELL. “Tae the case of this here bridge whist expert Blwell, and although it's already two years elnoe the crime, the police didn’t even discover @ mo- tive for it," Abe continued. “Probably it was deno by seme one who doubled a one no tramp bid when Elwell was his partner and the de- ceased didn't take him out in his strongest suit,"" Morris suggested, “Kor my part I think the police would have been just as much up against It if Elwell had been a pin- ochle expert," Abe sald, “Then again there was Taylor, the moving picture director in Los Angeles, and for all KIDDIE 4round the World and What Alice Found Seay ttn . ) ) MW) v1. CHAPTER XXXVII. Santa's Work Shop, 44s AVE you done your Christmas H shopping?" Alice asked her new friend Ellen. *¥os,"" Ullen sald she had. “Then you have seen the big stores New York and Santa Claus too,’ ce assumed. “No, I have not,” said Ellen, “I at all thé money in my Christmas buying from the bumboat."’ “Bumboat? What's that? Alice wondered, “It's where all the people who live bn the river barges do their shopping. Every week or so the little boat comes ‘p alongside the barge; the man on r signals us, then he comes aboard 4 shows us what he has to sell. All ear ‘round he has just ordinary hings, clothespins, petticoats, shoes nd such; things to eat, too, rico, ur, eggs, crackers and candy, But t Christmas time he brings around ust lovely toys for girls and boys, Muna such pretty dresses! I'd like to Sbuy all of them for mother. But Ee fhero is no Santa Claus on the bum- t. Oh, I'd Just love to see him,” Ma witen. “We're golng and we've come to . Fe wate } Nip Vy f alll take you to see him,'’ said Alice, “And you, too,’ said Jamie to El- len's brother, “If you want to come." “I'll say T do," answereé the boy, and with their mother’s permission, away they went Into the middle of the big city, which they had never seen excepting from the North River pier where the tug ‘“‘dropped’’ their barge, and where they stayed until It was unloaded. Thelr eyes, which were as round as saucers from the time they started out, grew bigger and bigger with each fresh sight that the great city offered. But when they came upon Santa himself giving small toys and trinkets to hosts of children who wajted In line to shake hands with him, they were delighted beyond words. ‘Banta hus u helper in almost every department store to meet the boys and girls who come to see him,"’ sald Alice. “If he didn’t he'd go back home with his right arm in @ sling the way the Prince of Wales did after his visit here,” said Jamie, ‘the would get so tired shaking handg."’ “Right around the corner’s Santa's own workshop," Mumsle informed the “J wouldn't altogether blame the detecatives for murder bein; conviction-proof nowadays, Law- yers haw also got a good deal to do with the fact that even after a murderer has been arrested and put on trial he could practically be con- sidered @ preferred risk from a Itfo insuranae standpoint.” “It seems to me that any married woman who goes to the trouble of getting a divorce is si \y wasting her money. Any woman who can't get away with murder before a jury of men mast be so homely that the police gat even a olue as to who done it, y'understand, it might just 60 well have bean any one of the million people in this country who ip sore at moving picture directors on account of seeing the same picture over and over again with different titles but the same moving picture actors." “Well, motives Is very poor clues to go on in the ease of murders, Ave,” Morrie said. “For instance, if Sam- met Brothers should be found poi- goned or something to-morrow set, considering the way them two crooks stole one of omr best Chicago ac- counts eway from us last week by imitating our etyle 4082 and cutting the price on us $i 3 garment, undey- stand me, the police weuld be quite right in arresting you and me on sus- picion, and espewially yoy op account of what you called Leon Sami when you met him jm Wasserhaucr's yesterday."” “Well, what sboyld f call such a highbinder?"’ Abo demanded. SOME CIRCUS WOULD BE PROVEMENTS. “Say, for my part, I think in the circumstances that the names you called him was compliments, Abe, but at the same time, Abe, such remarks ie considered evidence by detecatives, and if it wouldn't be that you've got @ perfect alibi on account of your wife being able to drag you out of the KLUB KORNER SATURDAY SPECIAL FEATURE Kiddie Contributions BANTA CLAUS. Christmas and New Year soon will be here, The merrtest holidays of al! the year. Theae days we like the best Becayse they're not like the reat, When Santa Claus comes to your home All the world he has to roam. He'll bring @ doll for Mary and a sled for Jack Ob, how we wish that be would never have to go back. Oh dear old Santa Claus, Please don't go away; You have come to our house And there you ought to satay. By Dorothea Kelly, Brooklyn. aoe A WINT'A DAY. Down trom *.e cloudy sky Falla the merry snow. It always seems to come from high And settle down below, And among the withered gr Little children play While a breezy wind does pass And quickly goes away, They make snowmen and bulld a fort, That ts their only play, For working does seem very short, Op such a merry day, By Ruth Deokson, Bronx. — Se children, “Really, mother?’ asked Alice and Jamie, “Why, you never told us it was there,” they pouted. “T ald pot know {t myself until yes. terday,” thelr mother admitted. Above the door was « sign: Men's Toy Shop.’ “That is just a disguise,” Mumste assured the four youngsters, And I believe this was true, because Inside the shop at the work benches, were many old men with long beards and white hair, and each was diligently making some toy designed to put into the toe of @ child's etucking. They wero busy with nails, hammer and bright paint brush, making wooden ships and wooden beasts and one was Putting squeaks into the wheels of a little red cart, while another dusted sand in the eyes of « sleeping doll for fear the Sandman might forget to do “O14 Alice and Jamie sald that they loved the place and wished that they might bring some more friends there to visit, But Ellen and her brother were too filled with wonder to speak. They had mever thought, wished nor dreamed of calling at Santa's real workshop It seemed all too marvel- lous to be true. she’s got nothing to live for way.” “A murderer canbe such a prom- inent murderer that for months the newspapers have been as full of details about his private life as if he would be the combined Republi- can and Democratic candidates for President, and yet if any prospec tive juror much as seen a head’ he fs thrown out of the court room by three bailiffs after having been fined fifty dollars for contempt of court.” house to go to a show only every sixth Saturday night, y'understand, you could easy be arrested for such a murder as Sammet Brothers,"’ Morris sald. “It's my opinien that such a crime Would be a big improvement ta tno community at that, Mawruss,’" remarked “Mout criminals thipk the same way about the erimes they have com- mitted, Abe," Morris sald, “A wrook that smashes a jeweller's window and steals a dozen diamond rings, y'under- stand, will probably explain to hin conscience, if he has any, that he's leafning a lesson to the eommunity not to make 4 vulgar display of dia- mond rings, In fact, the chances (# that a crook I!ke that would be In fa- vor of having the jeweller arrested and charged with letting twelye diamond rings being stolen from hi “Detecatives must be In favor of {t too, because seemingly that's the only way that detecatives could make aa arrest when a crime is committed nowadays," Abe declared A NATIONAL NO MURDER WEEK, “Well, they might arrest the yic- tims of other crimes, but certainly mot the victims of murders, Abe, so the only thing for such detecatlyes to do, if they want to make an arrest in a came like this here New Jersey mur- der, {5 to arrest tha witnesses, the widgw, the executors and the owner 01 the property where the crime was conmmitted upon the grounds that he failed to put up a notice reading: Commit No Murders : on These Premises. t Means YOU. because something has got to tg done 4 discourage murders, Abe,” sMorris ald, “Why wouldn't It be a good, {dea to have @ National Ne Murder Week?” Abe suggested "E doubt if you could reubh mur- derers that way,’ Morris said. “‘As @ cluss, Abe, murderers scons to be very retiring, and it would tee practi- cally impossible to get them to marcel ip & parade or wear buttoms.”’ “Then maybe the detecatiyes would do the marching and the byttton-wear- ing,'’ Abe said, ‘'Detecatives ought to do that much to prevent murders. Mawruss."’ Well, I wouldn't altagether blame the detecatives for muder being sv eonviction-proof nowugluys, Abe," Morris sald, “Lawyers has also got st good dea! to do with the fact that even after a murderar has been rested and put on tri he ebuld pr tically be considered gi preferred risk from a life insurance, standpoint. “A lawyer who eam't keep 4 mur derer tn the peace umd comfort of u condemned cell for anyhow five years, ‘Abe, {8 Hable to have charges ferred aguinst him by a bar associa- tion for negtectinay his client’s inter- este. He might qven be aceused by the district attorney of not getting his client @ now trial from sheer spite, xo 8 to do the district attorney out of is regular newapaper publicity. WITH WOMEIN ON THE JURY, “Which any district attorney with the normal ambition to become Gov- ernor of 4 Stat is entitled to get out of gp ordinary murder cause, 4 mini- mum publicity of one trial, one appeal, one re-trial, a second appeal and a trip to the State Capitol to oppose the application for a pardon.’ “Don't you also think, Mawruss, that juries bave got a Jot to do with giving munderers a feeling of secur- ity?” Abe asked. ‘It seems to me, Mawruss, the way juries is acting nowadays toward women who havo murdered their husbands, thet any Copyright, 1922 (New Yorks Evening World), Press Publishing Company. Dear Kiddie Kins: There are to be two, perhaps three, performances of the Ktddie Klub Christmas Show. Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shudert have given the Casino T'heatre (which “Sally, Irene and Mary” have selected os thetr winter home), and on the morning of Theursdap, Dec, £28, and again on Friday, Deo, £9, this theatre will be gay with the songs and laughter of Klub mombera. Requests for tickets for these two days have come tn thick and fast. In some instances, when Cousina have asked for tickets to the performance of the £8th, we have had to send admtastons for the 29th, because by the time their letters arrived tickets for the first house had all been taken, For this reason you had better LOOK OARHFULLY AT THE DATH ON YOUR TICKETS. Be sure that you do not come the first day with tlekets calling for seate for the second performance, and do not come on the second day Dec. £8. when your reservations ere for There are no more tickets for either of the two performances. But, ae I have sald, there may be another—a third performance. When Mr. Lee Shubert and Ms brother, Mr. J. J. Shudert, learned that we had exhausted our firet house they immediately of- Jered to allow us to give a second performance. Now that every ecat in the second house has beon spoken for, they are generously con- sidering giving us permission to extend our engagement over a third day. I know that they will arrange tt ¢f they possibly can. November Contest Award Winners. “CHRISTMAS TIME HOUSE.” Ten-Year Class IN OUR On Christmas Day we have always ® tree and my mother calls some of my friends in to see it. We have lote of fun with tt. Last Christmas when wo had oyr tree, we had eloc- tric Ughts on it and at night we it them up. They were all different colors and looked beautiful between the branches. We also had something else with which wo had lots of fun. Yor Christmas my mother bought me some houses which were made of cardboard and with them were some trees and @ paper with numbers on, Each house bed a number and bad HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB. CUT OUT THIS COUPON. Beginning with any out out wx of ouponn, 12h, 1,030, 1,081, 1,053 a then York City, with » whieh you must give your NAME, AGE and ADDRESS. Pl bo “careful to fa which you live, but the borough ‘All children up may become memb Dresented with & silv 4nd membership certificate. COUPON 1,028. ay Klub Pin Cousin Eleanor. to be placed on this paper. After that I bought some other small toys that 1 thought would go with It. It was a boxful of small toys, a small horse and wagon, about two Inches long, some small artificial men and two houses, @ church and @ wooden barn and animals to be put in it. Bvery- day I would put these toys with the others and arrange them as if {t were @ little village, Every day I would change the toys, We had a gate around the tree and snow in it, In the snow we had different kinds of houses and toys. Christmas week we enjoy better than any other during the year, By Mary A. Greenborg, Bronx, Eleven Year Class. Christmas Time tp our house is very merry. Christmas Eve my cousins and ounts and friends have dinner with us. After dinner wo exchange gift which is lote of fun. I go to bed about hal past ¢ight, first hanging up my stocking. In the morning when | awake the first thing I do is look fo my stocking. When I am dresged 1 60 downstairs to see the tree which 1s very prettlly trimmed, My presents gre put under the tree with a large Santa Claus dresued tn red from head to foot. On Christmas Day I go to my cous- ins home and spend a very pleasant day. When we go home and I an tucked tn bed, I often wonder if all children haye had such @ happy Christmas, Dorothy Lawrence, Great Neck, N. ¥ “IN FACT, THE CHANCES 1§ THAT A CROOK LIKE THAT WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF HAVING THE JEWELLER ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH LETTING STOLEN FROM HIM,” murried woman who goes to the trou- ble of getting a divorce is simply wasting money. In fuct, any woman, single or married, who can't get uway with murder before u jury of men, Mawruss, must be so homely that she’s got nothing left to live for anywa. “And now that women is serving on juries, Abe, a good looking mule derer has also got more than an even break for u long aud happy life TheGrandPr HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME A HAIRPIN will make th for the dial, Twist the hair bin so that the prongs are on @ line und a loop has been formed at the middle, Cut or break one pr off so that it is shorter than the othe Put @ pln or thumb tack through t loop, then set the pin upright in the hands TWELVE DIAMOND RINGS BEING the evidence is in, Morris said, », taking male and female juries to- gether, A cally the only of convicting a murderer now- adays is to try him before a mixed jury of the Victim's relations and creditors, and th ain't allowed by law, Abe, because lawyers are very particular about prospective Jurors ta 4 murder case. “A murderer can be such @ prom!- nent murderer that for months the izeAutoRace centre of the dial and spin Players begin at the space mark START and move the number of spaces indicated on the dial by the ; hand When a player of the must 1 ady 4 Une tind vontuiping his counter on onc directions he read r paces newspapers have been as full of @ tails about his private life as if my would be the combined Republican and Democratic candidates for Presi - dent, y'understand, and yet ff any prospective juror admits that he has as much as seen a headline about him, y’understand, he is thrown out of the courtroom by three bailiffs after having been fined fifty dollars for contempt of court. “Also Abe, if a prospective juror admits that he once knew a man who know a man who used to drink coffce occasionally with the defendant's sec- ond cousin once removed, the district attorney can challenge him, y'under- stand, whereas # he admits that he had a nodding acquaintance with a lady who had once been engaged to be married to the brother of the vic tim's dentist, y'understand, the attor- ney for the defendant can challenge him, and so it goes. “And I suppose if (Gott soll huten) such « juryman should get into the box and hear all the evidence for six weeks, and his secret is found out by either aide at the beginning of. the seventh week, the judge is obliged to @eciare the trial a misdeal and begin all over again with o fresl: jury,’ Abe said. AND 100 THEY NEVER ARKEST. “Naturally,” Morris agreed. “In fact appeal judges has upset convic- tions of murderers for much leas rea- son than that, Abe. For instance, after the trial had begun the jury Is always sent to a hotel and locked up for the night with tnstructions not to discuss the case with anybody, y'un- derstand, and in any number of cases, Abe, the prisoner has got away with his crime simply because a juror was overheard to say to a waiter or a chambermaid: ‘It's a fine day for a murder.’ “I suppose the judges decide that way upon the grounds that It's better for a hundred guilty murderers to go free than for one innocent man to get hanged, ain't ft?” Abe suugested. “| guess so,’ Morris agreed, “Well,"’ Abe concluded, “not count- ing the other hundred guilty mur- derers that never evgn get arrested, Mawruss, that’s’ about the way the figures run." opyright 1922 (By the Bell Syndicate, inc.) CONDUCTED BY ELEANOR SCHORER a By Frank P. 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