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Show "H Tl COT THINGS EVENED UP. JIH i Convict Suffered Inconvenience to fl Have Launli en Law. "" '' H The lato Capt. "Joo" Nlebolson B used to tell of a long-tlmo prisoner jH wlio bad been In tho bouse of corrco- jjH ;' S Hon while the captain ran that Instl M ) f lotion. :' Juit bo'orn his term expired tho H convict cabled tbo captain that Jus- i (leo was now done and that an hon- j est mnn would start afrosb in tho jH ' world. ' f "Hut you have told mo soveral times jB L Hint you wero Innocent of tbo H ' ' charge on whit h . i.j woro sont hero." H "So I was, Cupt. 'Joo,' and I ran H prove tt. Hero are tlie names of H ' throe vHnoshes. Get their stnlo- H ' mentis and see whether I am lying." H j Just as a matter of curiosity tho '' captain com; Hod and found cnuvlnc- H '' ' Ing evldcnco of tho limn'a Innocence. ;' TIlO nunlrt wur called In and In- jH , dignnntly askod why ho had not used jH ' bin ovidenco In eetting a now trial. jH ' f" "1'" te" yo. captain. In my tlmo jH . .1 was ac(iulttod thico or tour times jH wlion I was guilty, so whon I was con- jB victed of somothing I never did. I jH just thought I'd ovon things up by tnlt- !" ing my medicine without blcklnc. Do-sides, Do-sides, that, It sort of tickled mo to And that Justice had missed mo at jHj every shot." Detroit News. |