Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — A Salutary Law. [ARTICLE]

A Salutary Law.

The laws of Denmark contain, among other wise provisions, one which it would probably be as difficult; to find in the criminal code of Other nations as r» our own common law, or any other statute appending the same, It provides a pun-

ishment for that especially revolting form of cruelty which consists in allowing a fellow-creature to perish without extending to him a helping hand. A mere act of omission in certain cases is indictable. “Whoever has refused,” says the Danish law, “to help another.. person in mortal danger, when he could have done so without peril to his own life, and that person has perished in consequence, is liible to either imprisonment or fine. ”