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Show 1 , . An Old-Time Playful Prisoner. ' The centenary has been noted re-I re-I ccntly lu London of what the Annual I Keglster called "11 most unpurallellcd ! atrocity." It was only tho theft of a ' pocket handkerchief from a pocket; but the circumstances of tho deed ex-1 pluln tho vehemencu of this denunciation. denuncia-tion. Four men were on their trial for assaulting' a man In his houso at Ponder's Kud, putting him In fear and j stealing fiom him; and one of them i relieved tlio tedlpm of the trial, which J lasted eight hours, by picking the pocket of one of the turnkeys as ho stood In the dock. An official hnd the presence of mind to order the restoration restora-tion of tho handkerchief, and the prisoner pris-oner ohoyed, "with the most careless Indifference," but the court, wo read, "wero horror-struck." Justice, however, how-ever, pu'led itself together sufficiently to sentence all four men 1o death. |