Supreme Court on the subject of Monaco's claim against the state of Mississippi on defaulted bonds sets at rest once and for all any hopes that holders of these interesting bits of paper ever had of recovering the money they represent. The money was loaned to the state long before the Civil War and from that point of view in no way represented Toans ent to the state for the purpose of hostilities against the Union. Subsequently the bonds were repudiated, despite the plea of Daniel Webster that the obligation should be met, and in order to make sure that the debt would never be paid off, Mississippi went s0 far as to include in its constitution a provision forbidding the payment of any default ed bonds in' the future. That wi some thirty-eight years after the final obligation under these bonds had been incurred. The decision of the US. Supreme Court was just anticipated, though the point Involved was well worth trying out. What is of importance is the fact that the Supreme Court had already declared its power to enforce interment has never come up for cussion. What does seem clear out of the whole proceedings is that it only necessary for a state to repudiate its debts for them to be frrecoverable. It is an unfortunate doctrine, for it not only strikes at the security whicn state bond issues are supposed to provide, but affords a precedent for the fulure of which it only to be expected some state will take full advantage. the No. 1 Public Enemy, John Dillinger, with the leniency' accorded to his git? friend on a charge of conspiring to harbour the fugitive,—oF that extended to the doctor" who treated him for gunshot wounds without reporting to the police. Two years detention in a reformatory for the former, and two years imprisonment for the latter seem hardly adequate punishments for offences of the gravity of those for which the penalties were meted out. Whatever might be the position of the doctor there can be Tittle doubt as to the part the girl played in Dillinger's escape after killing three men when shooting his way through the force which surrounded him. She waiting in a car and drove off wit him when he reached it, She was surely aiding him to escape from the Jaw, and what is infinitely mor serious appears to have been cessary after the fact of murder. With "the peculiar loyalty "which izes the underworld it 18 received assistance even if his hi ers ran the risk of greater, punist Jment than appears to have been inflleted in this instance, but sharper sentences might have some effect in restraining at least some of the people who might give him aid, while the interests of the oticers who take their lives in their hands in attempting to catch the man, it would seem necessary that the hi lest possible sentences should passed on any found guilty of give and succour,
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