Show long sentence to serve col cot frank beard tor for many years a stenographer in the general sessions court was discussing with some his colleagues the difficulties of reporting speakers given to the use of long and involved sentences illustrations were given from speeches of william M evarts bourl e cockran and phillips brooks why said col beard none of them are in it with judge james altz gerald now of the supreme court I 1 reported a sentence of his on one occasion which I 1 believe Is the longest on record can you remember it asked ased one of the party why certainly said col beard it was in the firebug case and the woi wolds ds as I 1 remember them were forty eight years at hard labor in state prison new york times |