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Show HEAVY SENTENCE FOR WHITE MAN AND HIS NEGRO WIFE Richmond. Va, Jan. 21. In the sentencing sen-tencing at Farmville, this state, yesterday yes-terday of Marcus Lindsay and hia wife, a negTess. to serve 18 years in the penitentiary, one of the most inhuman in-human cases in the history of the state bnp been disclosed, Lindsay is the son of a white woman and, although he believed ho had negro blood In his veins, and associated with members of that race, the court held that ho had enough Caucasian blood to be legally leg-ally white. Lindsay recently was married tn Sophia Jones, a negre?s, the widow of another negro, and has since lived with her. The two were indicted on the charge that Llndsav, a white man, married a negress, and because Soph-la Soph-la married a white man, the law prohibiting pro-hibiting intermarriages between the races. The judge declared, however, that while he was forced to pronounce sentence sen-tence he would petition the governor lo pardon the prisoners, but upon tho conditions that all marital relations between them should cease. |