Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1869 — An Early Judge. [ARTICLE]

An Early Judge.

Jt is reported*that a>popu!ar Indiana judge, whose term of oflice was rapidly to, a close and who was intent upon securing his re-election, passed the following sentence uponKnotoriotis eriminaE “Mr. Green, you h ave iust’been found guilty- Will yo ft kindness to stand up,‘Mr. G»»en? I really would not trouble you, Mr. Green, but siieh is the established custom of the Court. Ajs I was saying, Mr. Green, you have jnst been fquilff guilty by the jury, Mr. Greet), of-—of—Tbelieve you called it murder, Mr. Foreman of the jury; ye's, murder. You will please ta£e notice, Mr. Green, that it is the jury who find you guilty, not I, Mr. Green. I express no opinion on the subject, but, I am compelled by the law—it’s a mere formality/ ?’ o far as 1 am concerned, <«rße»-n. to sentence‘you fb bo fihflg by the neck; till you are dead—dead. At what time would it bo agreeable to you to be hung, Mr. Gretm *"