Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-01-13
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
That's What BiI1 Nazles tiot for Stealing
 Hog and He Didn't Eepine Either.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. rnot,s What BiIl Nazies tiot for Stealing
 Hog and He Didn't Eepine Either.
 The quality of mercy is not so strained in behalf of criminals in DOT tions of the southern courts, or was not some years ago, as it often is, say, in Illinois. The law provides for heavy penalties and neither judge nor jury hesitates for a moment about imposing them when the occasion seems to de- mand it.
 Just after the war crimes were some- what numerous down in eastern North Carolina and the courts were kept busy. Those were the days when horsestealing, arson, burglary, high way robbery, and other crimes beside murder were punished by death sem tences which were invariably eXe- cuted. while lesser crimes had corre- spending need of reward. Murderers might and often did escape justice, but other transgressors, never.
 Bill Nazels, ''poor-whiteo clay-eat- CT, who owned wife, nine small chil- dren. six cur or flee dogs, and noth- ing else in the world, had been arrest- ed and indicted for hog stealing. Bills ''cussedness" was so pronounced that 1t passed into proverb among his own class, which was very extraordinary, as moderate amount of that commod- ity was commonly regarded by them as 8 good thing.
 Bill did work sometimes, but it was an infexible rule with him to stop when his earnings amounted to i've dollars. Fifty cents of the amount was then invested in corn meal for the larder and the remainder in whisky for himself. The latter fact will explain. in large degree Bills unpopularityI among his neighbors whose unyarying0 rule when they got hold of whisky was to call in the "folzses" and have fl good, old-fashioned drunk together. men, women, and children. Nothing could possibly be more contemptibleI from their point of view than for al man to 'git pizen drunk all ter his- self, as Bill was won't to do.
 Hence Bill lay in jail three months, with no one to visit him except his sallow-faced wife and ragged children, who took him "baeker n whisky at recurrent internals. Because he had no friends the court was compelled to assign him counsel, for no lawyer would have been willing to take his ease voluntarily, even if he had had money. The prevailing sentiment among them and every body was that the hen-roosts, potato and melon patches, sheep folds and hog ranges would show healthy improvement if he were kept out of the neighborhood.
 The youthful attorney who repre- sented him withdrew with the prisoner for brief season to the jury room that opened off from the court, and when he returned announced that Mir Nazles, l in ''view of the evidence and the facts, desired to enter a plea of guilty, throw ing himself on the mercy of the court, whose sense of justice would unques- tionably lead him right
 Bill nodded his head approvingly to what was said by his counsel and to in terrogatories from the judge frankly confessed he had crept by night into the hog pen of Mexico Jennings, borne thence a ssrazor-baelx'' hog of uncer- tain value; that he had cut it's throat, sealded and cleaned the carcass, cut it up and salted it down in his own pork barrel, concluding with:
 But, Judge, 'twer' desputly pol 'n' stringy."
 Mexico solemnly testified that this particular ''razor-baclS" was a pet of the household, which he valued at up- wards of twenty dollars, although he ''moughter not find buyer at them figgers."
 The judge evidently deemed it un- necessary to go further into the evi- dence, for he stopped short, bade Bill stand up, and said, sternly:
 'Prisoner, weighing your general character with the evidence, 1 have decided to give you twenty-five years and have only to regret that l cannot infict a severer penalty. Mir. Sheriff, take the prisoner"
 | The good people were accustomed to heavy punishment for crimes, but even l they, those present and afterward the whole community, were astounded at such q sentence for the larceny of a i 'razor-baeb that was not worth five dollar bill
 1'4Ais toNfSFSAf 1Nss tteSe eAiS AAAIobCA differently. His face was wreathed in n succession of smiles as he turned in unaffected joy to his counsel and ex- claimed:
 Hit were peart move CT pleadun' guilty, fer eff Judge Plume hey had CT jury to holp him out, durn ef he would n CT hung me, sho's snaix. Chicago Tribune.
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