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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
upon as a prosecuting attorney of this county to convict Douglas of killing Briston, I would send him to the electric chair, even if you all disliked me for doing my duty. It is all right for medical men to consider the individual, but men of law must consider the community. ' '
Douglas seemed breaking up under the strain, and started back aghast as a full realization of his position was relentlessly awakened by Sloane.
' ' Nonsense ! ' ' Rogers exclaimed with spirit. "The funniest cartoon I ever saw was sketched of a lawyer with no comic explanation beneath — he had his hands in his own pockets. The part you play in the community is not as unselfish as that of the physician who gives professional services in thousands of cases every year for no fee whatever. Dont talk to me about the interests of the community
as opposed to that of the individual. It is your place, as much as mine, to prevent crime, to unite with the rest of us in saving a fellow we all have good reason to love, from the consequences of an act committed while wholly unconscious of it."
"Is that so?" said Sloane fiercely. "I realize that none of us are perfect. We are all weak at times, and the strongest of us may come up against a crisis in which he is transformed from a natural being to an irrational one in the twinkling of an eye, but we have made laws because we realize our own imperfections and we punish to cure by example. The worst of all crimes is murder. The very thought of it makes every decent-minded man shudder. It is an act surrounded by all that is base and revolting in human nature. To encourage it by leniency would be to
HOW THEY EFFECTED THE CURE OF JOHN DOUGLAS