The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-01-04
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
Albert Hough Sentenced to the Pen
itentiary for the Remainder of
His Life

When the circuit court convened
this morning the roll call Of jurors
for the week was ordered, and al
answering to their names, the court
excused them until / o'clock This
afternoon.
Albert Hough, who Christmas was
found guilty of the murder of his
wife, was brought into court, and
after asking him whether he had
any reason to offer why the sentence
of the law should not be passed on
him, and receiving reply of "No,"
Judge Bullock in the following Ian
guage sentenced him to life impris-
onment:
An Impressive Sentence
..In passing the sentence which the
law attaches for the commission of
the crime of which you have been
convicted, l. express to you my sin
cere sympathy in this hour of your
great affection.
''The agony that you must have
suffered in passing this ordeal is
great indeed, and / would not add one
iota to your already crushing bur-
den by reviewing, even briefly, the
circumstances eliminating in this
fearful tragedy. If possible I prefer
to lift the shadow of the dark cloud
of gloom and show you the silver lin
ing of hope on the innerside. Ellen
T. Fowler has said that
The innerside of every cloud is bright
and shining
And I always turn my clouds about
And wear them inside out to show the
lining.
Thirty years ago, the demon alco-
hol plunged its poisonous fangs deep
into your youthful system where the
evil seed took root in fresh ground
and brought forth yield of thou
sand fold and its hideous offspring
has held its onward march of pro-
gress as it ruthlessly brushed aside
the kindly admonition of loving
friends and spurned with contempt
the assistance of devoted brother,
Inundated your little son in the
presence of carousing reprobates UNI
til az last its hideous form invaded
the sacred precints of home adorn-
ed with the perfection of Gods handi-
work and sweetened and blessed with
the fragrance of five that of such is
the kingdom of heaven and trans
forming you from natural to an un-
natural man and hating only when it
had snatched from your own loving
embrace that one whom you have
characterized as the dearest and
sweetest thing on earth and whom
the angels will be proud to welcome.
Take courage, Mr.. Hough, in the fact
that it was not you,, but the demon
alcohol within you that acted. Go
forth with the resolve that "My bus
mess is not to make myself, but to
make the absolute best of what God
made"
Remember, that a certain amount
of opposition is great help to a
man. Kites rise against and not
with the wind Above all duties
which you owe, it is an everlasting
duty to be brave"
'Whatever other misfortunes may
have overtaken you in life's battle,
this misfortune affords you an OPP
portunity for emancipation from a
master whose baleful influence you
have, apparently, been unable to cope
with. Your old life time enemy al
coho1 is now chained and fettered so
that he cannot assault you and you
freed from his dominating evil in
fluence; and this fact is the inner
lining of the dark cloud now lowering
over you.
after all, Mr.. Hough, may the
finger of time so guide and direct you
in your future course of life that
there may be a final meeting in the
great beyond with that angel that has
preceded you and that you may then
crown her lovely brow with a wreath
of white roses that required her life
to produce.
aThe sentence of the law is that
you Albert Hough be imprisoned by
confinement at hard labor in the
state prison for the term of your life
without solitary confinement"
Marcus Fore, a white man, who
pleaded guilty of larceny was sen.
?
: on.
Charles Brown, colored boy, who
pleaded guilty to the charge of steal
ing a horse was sent to the stat.
: reform school for two years.
: Bert Palacias Rufus Powell, whitt
boy, who was implicated with Brown
in the horse stealing case, also plead
ed guilty. He said that he had mad,
his escape from the Kentucky reform