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A Miserable Farce.Manly Clifford, tin- Mihvankcc yonng lrtW. wlio allot Copt. Pugh, of Kuciue, last year, was sentenced to the penitentiary ior life by Judge Bennett, at .lauoaville, on Momlav. The poor boy wept like a child* ami when his sorrowing mother was mentioned bv the kind hearted judge, Cliflord shuddered and almost fell to the door. Whisky and gambling have m turn ease sent a bravo man to his grave, sent a real 'smart boy to state prison for lilb, and broken the heart of a fond mother. 'Ihe Jus-90U ought to ho branded into the brains oJ many young men who avo starting out on career of smart ness, but it probably will not be. If they could, a* they sit about the gambling table, see ihe iloud Captain TnghVtho weeping mother of the irumler-‘crj' and the handsome hoy handeu'rted and shackled, on his way to tho living deaththno awaits Lira, and could ventiho that .-they iive taking the same road, they might give gmmbline and drinking the shake, :mu ' go iiitoa more rcspcctable business.—j'eck'a Suti.Uahnwtl0aCltitlaV0 n r adviee is very well ti mfed, 0eorge, but some of your remarks are a liliJe too previous. You say tlnit whisky and gambling have “ sent a real smart boy to state prison for life;” He hasn’t gone yet., and the probabilities are that, he never will go.. ' If a new trial is granted—which t3icrc.no «onbt will be—the jury will say : “There must be something wrong about this case; ,(tk« prisoner 3m been found guilty, and the supreme'‘court sends the easu back for anew trial. There must bo some cxcusu ibr his committing this net;' perhaps he is not guilty at alb” And so they will reason ■ among themselves and perhaps make up . their minds that it was only a case of as-. wauU nhil battery!” It will be impossible to.get llie witnesses together that testified ou tho iirst trial, and so ono tbing ami■ . • . • u. I . •another will transpire in behalf- of-the goiliy culprit, until dually the prisoncIstCl«I
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Racine Advocate
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Jun 07, 1883
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