Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — He Was Not Afraid of the Gallows. [ARTICLE]

He Was Not Afraid of the Gallows.

Little Johnny Fizzletop was rebuked by bis father for throwing stones at another boy. “If you keep on in that way you will commit murder and be hung some of these days,” said the parent. “Oh, if I am going to be hung, 11l have a nice time. The newspapers will bring out my picture, and the pretty girls will visit me every day in my cell, and bring me flowers, and I’ll get into heaven sure, and that will be bully, won’t it, pa?”— Texas Siftings.