Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1911 — The Judge’s Crime. [ARTICLE]

The Judge’s Crime.

A prisoner, a faded, battered specimen of mankind, on whose haggard face, deeply lined with the marks of dissipation, there still lingered faint reminders of better days long past, stood dejected before a New York police judge. “Where are you from?” asked the magistrate. “From Boston,” answered the accused. “Indeed,” said the judge—“indeed, yours is a sad face, and yet you don’t seem to thoroughly realize how low yon have sunk.” The man started as if struck. “Your honor does me an injustice,” he said bitterly. “The disgrace of arrest for drunkenness, the mortification of being thrust into a noisome dungeon, the publicity and humiliation of trial in a crowded and dingy courtroom I can bear, but to be sentenced by a police magistrate who splits his infinitives—that is indeed the last blow.”— New York World, s