Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — Playing Seven-up for Liberty. [ARTICLE]

Playing Seven-up for Liberty.

“I have been a lawyer a great many years,” said a passenger from EoChester, N. Y., “and one of the queerest cases that ever came to my notice was about eight or ten years ago. There were two young fellows charged with having committed a burglary on a store. They refused to employ a lawyer, and fixed up a scheme between them. Knowing that they were guilty, they concluded that the chances were against their getting away, although, so far as they knew, there was no direct proof of their guilt. While in jail together they played a game of seven-np to sed which should plead guilty on trial and swear that the other one was not with him and had no part in the crime. Ini ‘this way, they"*argued, one of us will surely escape, Which will be a good deal better tlian both going ovef the road. They played their series <sf games pf seven-up, and, true to his Wrgain, the loser went into court and pleaded guilty, and took his oath that he alone planned and executed the crime. But, as luck would have it, the Prosecuting Attorney had been able to collect ample evidence to convict one of the fellows, and this one the very chap who had beat his partner at seven-up, thereby winning, as he supposed, 'hjs liberty. Both were sent to the penitentiary, and both have turned out thorough and desperate professional burglars.”—Chicago flera'd. Prof. H. L. Fairchild, in a scientific lecture in New York, stated that while we always think of the dry land as the true olace of stability, as a matter of fact it is the ocean which forever

maintains its plane, and the lfnd which is continually oscillating. He informed his auditors that Manhattan Island is gradually' Wlffiy lived long enough they could find the sea covering the place. With great consideration he relieved their’« minds by sayiug that there was time enough to finish the lecture before the 'island sank. 'C. - >| ■ 3? ** " . I '