Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1893 — A VERY. GOOD JOKE. [ARTICLE]

A VERY. GOOD JOKE.

Solomon Key, eighteen years old, son of the Rev. Isaac Key, of Winamac, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for perpetrating what he intended to be a joke. Some time ago, while himself and a companion were walking homeward, they stopped to rest tn a hay stack, and Key’s companion fell asleep. Thereupon Key set fire to the stack as a joke on his friend. The friend failed to awaken in time and was severely burned.