Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — Beyond the Span of Life. [ARTICLE]

Beyond the Span of Life.

To be sentenced to imprisonment for the term of one’s natural life is hard enough, but to be consigned to a dungeon cell for a couple of thousand years Is, Indeed, barrowing. Yet foreign judges not infrequently Impose sentences of several centuries, without It being considered anything remarkable. Not long ago an Italian adventurer was convicted of sixty-three distinct forgeries. He was sentenced In each case, with the result that he will he free In the year 2089. A couple of years ago a young man was arrested In Vienna, who, upon his own showing, should have been sentenced to 2500 years’ Imprisonment. A total of 400 charges was brought against him, and he was convicted and sentenced on all of them. But the judge was a merciful man and, in passing sentence, he threw off 1000 years In consideration of the man’s youth. A little time ago, In tho great Calabraln brigandage trial In Naples, the public prosecutor demanded sentence upon 248 prisoners, and, although the average sentence lmposed-was a little over five years, the aggregate of the sentences amounted to 1300 years’ Imprisonment.—Chicago Chronicle.