JUDICIAL CLEMENCY.
Jim Webster, a coloured transgressor, was arraigned before a Texas Justice, who said to the doomed man : •'I'll let you go this time, as the evidence against you is not very conclusive to my mind." " Thank you, Boss ; thank you. kindly. I wishes all de odder Jedgcs would treat oie like you does. Yer a gennerman, san."
" Bat don't come here again, or I'll have to be severe with you.'* "You may be sure I am gwinter to come heal) no moah. I didn't come dis time. Hit's de perliceman what fetches me ebery time. Ef you waits, Jedge, till I comes here all by myself, you will be a heap older den Methusalum."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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116JUDICIAL CLEMENCY. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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