Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1920 — ATTACKS PAROLE SYSTEM [ARTICLE]

ATTACKS PAROLE SYSTEM

Judge Landis Attributes to It Many Crimes. Chicago, November 22. —Coleman T. Fay, Jr., and Lawrence M. O’Brien, who posed as revenue agents and attempted to loot the home of Mrs. John B. Murphy, widow of the famous surgeon, on the evening of October 11, were sentenced to serve three years in the federal penitentiary yesterday by Judge Landis. "in passing* the sentence, the judge bitterly attacked * the Illinois parole system, denouncing it as one of the principal reasons for the large number of crimes in Chicago. “Look at these boys!” exclaimed the judge, pointirig his finger across the bench. “They are the products of the Illinois system. Both have records, yet neither one has served a day for his crime. They are out

now on parole. It is incomprehensible that the state stands for such an outrage.”