Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — Playing Too Safe. [ARTICLE]

Playing Too Safe.

A prisoner at the sessions had been duly convicted of theft, when it was seen, on “proving previous convictions,” that he had actually been in prison at the time the theft was committed. “Why didn’t you say so?” asked the judge of the prisoner angrily. “Your lordship, I was afraid of prejudicing the jury against me.” — Home Herald.