A Light Sentences.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 2, 10 January 1905, Page 2

A Light Sentences.

A gentleimafti kow living in this citj' tells the following" story of a n«gro in Tennessee whose son bad been convicted of killing a fellow-workman. A fow daj-s after the trial the father was asked what disposition had been made of the case

"Oh," he answered, "dey done send Johnson to jail for a mpnf."

"That's a light sentence for killing a man, don't you think?"

"Yes," answered- the darky, "but at de end- of de. inorif cley done groin' to hang 'im."— N. Y. Times? }