THE BIBLE WENT BACK ON HIM.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2573, 6 April 1877, Page 3

THE BIBLE WENT BACK ON HIM.

James A. Mullin, ex-convict, v and informer on Sing SiDg prison officials, was placed on trial in General Sessions yesterday before Judge Gildersleeve. Mullin stopped at a woman's stand in Essex Market to buy two cents' worth of garlic, and while there a female friend came up to invest in three cents worth of eggs, at the same time jostling the stand-keeper, which movement Mullin availed himself of to rob the stand-keeper of her purse, which contained J< $11 Mullin's friend was in Court to testify that Mullin picked the purse from the floor. James cross-examined the stand-keeper, but after the third question he exclaimed " I giye in,'* When the Clerk asked him had lie, anything to say why. sentence should not be passed on him, he stood up and addressed the Court as follows: '• Your Honor, it is true that I was sent to prison'but this woman .whom you' see here was once my wife, and when she Was in trouble I pleaded guilty of the crime to save her and when I came here this morning I was full sure Your Honor wquld'see me out of this, but I find my confidence misplaced. This," continued James, taking' from a newspaper a^ Bible that he had stolen from the Tomb's, " has been my only> mainstay in all this trouble (begins to weep). I hav^e looked, to this for, strength and I read it and pondered oyer it (still weeping), and I learned to love my sweet Jesus and — " " That will do,' 1 said Judge Gildersleevo; " you are the greatest humbug I ever saw. The Sentence of the Court is five years at hard labor in'the State Prison." ' " Oh. for God's sake, don't send me there Judge ! They'll kill me —I know they ,will ! " As he passed bact to the prisoner's box Mullen 'threw down his. Bible j» ith grjeat violencp'ahd gave ifj a kick, sending it across the room], exclaiming, at! the same time,, "It went back on me.!"— New York World, January- 16fch. r , ,