Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — Same Thing. [ARTICLE]

Same Thing.

In the early days of Arizona, an elderly and pompous chief justice was presiding at the trial of a murder case. An aged negro had been ruthlessly killed, and the only eye witness to the murder was a very small negro boy. When he was called to give his testimony, the lawyer for the defense objected on the ground that he was too young to know the nature of an oath, and in examining him asked: “What would happen to you if you told a lie?” “De debbll *ud git me!” the boy replied “Yes, and I’d get you," sternly said the chief justice. “Dat’s jus’ what I said!” answered the boy.—National Monthly.