Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1915 — How He Knew. [ARTICLE]

How He Knew.

“You say,” said the attorney for the defense, “that though the night was very dark, you saw Rastus Johnson leaving your hencoop at midnight from your bedroom window?” “Yes, sir,” said the plaintiff. “How could you distinguish him in the blackness of the night?” demanded the attorney. “Why—er,” said the plaintiff, "the darkness was so much blacker all of a sudden that Rastus’ presence there was obvious. No other human being could cast such a shadow on anything so dark as that night already was.” — Judge.