A PITIABLE CASE.
■-An Lrisbman. arrested for highway robbery, on being brought before a magistrate asserted that,he was mpre entitled to be pitied than to be punished. " Pitied ! " exclaimed the justice, while his eyebrows arched with more than ordinary wonderland contempt;.•.-..■"..and- on what account, pray ? " "Sure,on:account of my misfortune." " Your misfortune, indeed ! What! that we have iiaught you, I suppose ? " r "Oh, the jintleman that's brought me here knows my misfortune well enough." But the gentleman was astonished as the magistrate himself, and as incapable of itnderstanding the culprit's meaning. "You will Own, I suppose," said his worship. " that you stopped this gentleman on the highway?" *'■ Oh, yes, I did that same." " And that you took from him fifty pounds in bills?" "And there your honor's, right again." ✓ " Well, then, you perplexing vagabond, what .do' you mean by your misfortune ?" " *'*.Sure, and the money wasn't in my pocket above a week, "when the dirty. bank 'shopped payment and I was robbed of every :shiiim'.' r .;:\: '•'."....■
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 186, 13 January 1875, Page 3
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165A PITIABLE CASE. Globe, Volume II, Issue 186, 13 January 1875, Page 3
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