UNUSUAL SENTENCE.
Judge Hugh Morris in the United States District Court at Wilmington (Delaware) sentenced a prisoner who pleaded guilty to have stolen a motorcar to write 260 letters, at the rate of one each Sunday for five years. “This is the first time that I have paroled anyone to myself (he said, according to a Christian science Monitor report). Ido not know whether you are worth it or not. f I want you to write to me every Sunday, so that I will receive the letters on Monday; not only telling me about your work, but telling me what you are doing and what your thoughts are end your plans for the jfuture, so that I may really know you. Fail to send one letter and you will go to the Federal penitentiary for three years. Do not change your residence or your occupation without consulting me. The parole is for five years.”
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1104, 10 March 1930, Page 6
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