RATHER TOO PREVIOUS.
Judge Parker, of Arkansas, probably sentenced more men to be executed than any other judge who ever lived, not because lie was so unrelentingly severe, but because he had the most hardened lot of criminals to deal with that could come within the jurisdiction of such an ollicial. One day (he judge looked compassionately over his spectacles at a certain young scamp, and said, •' In consideration of the youth and inexperience of this prisoner, I shall let him off with a line of liftjr dollars (,£IU) Before the judge had finished speaking, the voung man coollv ran his. hand into his trousers, remarking nonchalantly as he did so. "That's all liunky, judge: I've got that much light here in my pocket.' " And one year in the penitentiary,''' continued the judge. Then looking over at the convict in a quizzical sort of way, he added, " Do you happen tc have that in your pocket
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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156RATHER TOO PREVIOUS. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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