A Fine Legal Point

The growing cunning of crimo is being matched by equally inereasing astuteness on the bench, as is evidenccd by the recent decisión of Judge Brady, of the New York Supreme Conrt, in the case of Connors, the Northampton (Mass.) baak-robber. The theory of the defense was that Connors had never been in Massachnsetts, and, thfit therefore he could not be siirrendered on a irnrnwt rrom ine autiionties of tht State. The United States constitution recites that a person "shall flee trom justice " in order to bo subject to requisition between States. Technically, Connors had not " fled" from Massachusetts justice, but he was the niaster spirit of the burglary, and received the "plunder." So Judge Brady applied a little common sense to the case, and took the grouud that essentially and realiy the man in New York who commits a crime in Massachusetts flees from Massacliusetts though his body lias never left Manhattan ialand. The case will be appealed, if necessary, until it reaches the Supremè Court of the United States