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The Green Bag presented to the grand jury and he

get along without monopoly: we can get along without it; and the business men of this country must square them selves to that necessity. Either that, or we must proceed to state socialism and vest the Government with power to run every business. . “Under these conditions, I am entirely opposed to an amendment of the anti trust law. It is now a valuable Govern ment asset and instrument. Tested' and

occurred September 27, when Maximo

brought into practical and beneficial

Rossi was sentenced to serve 8 Yea-‘.5

use by twenty years of litigation and construction by the highest court, why

imprisonment in Sing Sing prison by Judge Foster in General Sessions. R0551

should we imperil its usefulness by

at the time of his arrest was on his way

experiment?”

to take a job in New Haven. He said he carried a revolver for fear of the

was discharged. An Italian laborer was arraigned in the Tombs Court Septem ber 1 charged with carrying a shotgun

which he had just bought to hunt rab bits with;

he was paroled by Judge

Swann, who was greatly perplexed by the law making such an offense a felony punishable by seven years imprison ment. The first conviction of felony

Black Hand, and that he was an honest The Sullivan Pistol Law New York has a new pistol law which went into effect early in September. The Sullivan weapon law (Laws of 1911, c. 195) makes it a felony to carry or have in one’s possession without a license any firearm. There has been much condem nation of the law, both by those who regard it as an improper interference

working man. Judge Foster said it W35

unfortunate that this should be "the custom with you and your kind, and

that fact, combined with your irascible nature, furnishes much of the crimillal business in this country. I must enforce this law and impose sentence to Warn

every volvers one mustthat stop." this carrying of re‘

with private rights and by those who think it sound in principle but needing amendment. Others commend it as a ‘ means of stamping out the evil of carry ing concealed weapons, but as a law which calls for discretion in its enforce ment. On September 9 a night watch man was arrested for having fired his revolver at a gang of Italians who at tacked him when he was guarding some paving materials from depredation. Magistrate Butts refused to convict him, holding that the Sullivan law must be liberally construed, so as not to prohibit the protection of life and property. On September 7 a German subject ar rived in New York City at the Pennsyl vania station in Day street, carrying a shotgun in a leather case. He was ar rested and confined with common crimi nals for four days, when the matter was

Miscellaneous

Redmond Barry has been made Lord Chancellor of Ireland, succeeding the late Sir Samuel Walker. He has been Solicitor-General of Ireland since 1905

Leon R. Eyges, senior member of the

Boston law firm of Eyges, Vyner & Freedman, has been appointed lecturer in the course of bankruptcy given in the Suffolk School of Law. In connection with the vacancy caused by Chief Justice Knowlton's retirement from the Massachusetts Supremejudicial Court, the name of Professor Samuel Williston of Harvard Law School was one of the chief ones mentioned before