Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — Hits Worst Offense. [ARTICLE]

Hits Worst Offense.

When it was proposed to lessen the list of crimes punished by death, Lord Eldon objected to the noose being banished in cases of petty sbop-llfting. “The small shopkeepers will be ruined by this exemption,” said the old Tory Lord Chancellor. Another Tory, a judge, so.venertited the sovereign that he Included In his regard any article belonging to the king, no matter how far removed from actual possession. A tailor had been condemned for the murder of a soldier, and the judge tacked on this addition to the sentence of death: “And not only did you murder him, but you did thrust, or push, or pierce, or project, or propel the lethal weapon through the belly-band of bls breeches, which were his majesty's!"