Show dangerous full yesterday wo mentioned that A A cord upon his pleading guilty to complicity in the sabina nail mail robbery was sentenced to five imar in some public penitentiary before bobas lie waa sentenced ho lio was as as asked ed if ho lie had bad any tiny statement to make he ile replied lie biad a fe words to say tho the following I 1 o aing remar remarkable kable explanation was then made by him 1 I started out with another man to 0 have some fun w with 1 ith the mail carrier N C who had been boasting jo asting how brave ho lie was ras had i just mt been married and we thought though it an in opportune time to scare him there was no intention in n my mind either to do him any injury or to molest the mail the carrier carrier was late that night which was the cause of our going so far out of town before we are met him my accomplice had been drinking and was quite drunk when we met the mail before I 1 knew he had cut oue one sack open and was wm ravaging its co contents when I 1 saw this I 1 told liim him I 1 did not want to have anything to do with such an outrage ile ie eaid said well what arc are you going to do abou tit you arenow are now in with me and you will have to stand the consequences II 11 I 1 saw this cut it sack myself and told him I 1 should give my myself self up to the officers tins this I 1 accordingly did I 1 am now hero here to answer for the ense and I 1 beg for the mercy of the court judge emerson suggested that it was rather dangerous fun full thus to tamper with the US U S mails but as the prisoner bad saved all expenses by pleading cuilty guilty had told the truth and had been acri led to commit the deed by bad company ho lie would bo be as lenient as tho the law allowed him in pronouncing renouncing the sentence the fladge judge then sentenced him to five years as above announced noun ced during the the st house was perfectly silent all the tile spec taic gators as with eyes bent u upon on the unfortunate victim of bal bad company seemed to davs pity for tho the young prisoner as ho lie did nt not look a bad mail |