Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — Swift Justice. [ARTICLE]

Swift Justice.

Justice is occasionally swift in Mexico. An American while seated in lie Plaza Mayor, in the .City of Mexico, missed a lield glass. It had been-taken from his pocket by a clever rogue, lie had not recovered from his ama .e ent when three policemen a; preached, h .v----ing in custody the thief, the glass still in his possession. The American was required to go at once with the officers tp-the court. Here the prisoner was promptly tried, and in fifteen minutes from the time of entering the courthouse, he had been sentenced to terve a term of five years in the Mexican army.