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Sentence of Youri? Muob.Abijah Moon, who has been in jail some days for steal ini? ft horse belonging to \V. \V. Wyman of Shawtown on the I7lh of April, :ls previously narrated i« the News, appc-ared before Judge I3tintly on Tuesday morning at S o’clock, plead guilty to the ; charge, and was sentenced to '2 years j at hard labor in the Plate's prison at I Waupun, the first day to be solitary | continent out.i Judge Bundy, in passing sentence,! took occasion to give the prisoner | some good advice. It was a bad i beginning in life for ft boy. and it i came from hanging around saloons j and being in bad company. He i hoped that this experience would he j useful to him, and that when ho was j through with his term he would ert-! devor to be a good man and lead a 1 useful life. In this belief he wouldi• sentence him him to only two year.- j : instead of the longer term allowed by j j law. If he did not come out a better 5 man, but continued in the old way he might expect to spend the greater part of his life behind prison bar.-. a.- j future sentences would he m...v j severe.In answer to ft question of District Attorney MeCasi in “Bijo ’said that he was drunk at the time of the theft, j and if he had not been he would not j have taken the horse. The prisoner has an ismucent boyish look about him, and probably owes his present j predicament to his bringing up and | his unfortunate surroundings. It j would truly be passing strange if a sou of the notorious Dell Moon should grow up into a useful and respected citizen.Deputy Sheriff Babenrath left on Tuesday nignt for W’aupnu wirh the prisoner.
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Eau Claire News
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sat, May 10, 1884
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