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Show THUG PREFERS DEATH TO 25 YEARS IN JAIL MARION. Ind, Oct. 1 i.T-Under i.T-Under sentence of 25 years in Indiana state prison for armed robbery. George O'Brien, 90, of Hammond, declared today he1 would prefer to be shot to death than serve th term. Pronouncing sentence yesterday, yester-day, Circuit Judge O. D. Claw-son Claw-son aaid: "Crime doesn't get you any place. Look at those fellows (the Brady gangsters) who were shot to death in a street in Maine. You might have been one of them." "When I get out of prison." O'Brien said. "I will be more than SO year old. and I won't have anything to look forward to. I'd prefer to be one of those men shot down In the street." |