Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-12-22

your name AID going from poStottice to
poStotfice. so it has been impossible
to locate the victims, You could not
DO it yourself, l suppose"
He took off his glasses, wiped them
with his handkerchief, placed the
handkerchief in his pocket and the
glasses on his nose. Then he looked
down again al thF prisoner.
But he was completely changed. The
severity was gone from his face. There
was a twinkle in his eyes. The judi
cial voice was laid aside. There were
those who criticized some of the
judges judgments. They were not or
thodox. They took no account of prec
edents. They ignored Blackstone.
Jack" he said, Il believe I shall
have to help YOU"
"Wha-what-let me go, you mean
Tom?" stammered the prisoner look
ing dazed.
NO, indeed" laughed the judge
THAT wouldn't help you a bit, Jack
| was just thinking of the time at
school, when You stole Billy Bob's
marbles. Accused of it, You grew sui
len and abusive, ready to fight the
whole school, Then Billy Bobs remem-
bered 1t was near Christmas. and he
told you it was all righ- about the
marbles, as you would have Won them
from him anyway, and forced a whole
handful more into your pocket and
insisted on taking YOU over to his
house for the Christmas dinner Bill
ly was a good sort.
well, 1t is Christmas time now,
Jack-only three days ahead. And I
was just thinking what a good chap
you We're for whole year after the
Billy Bobs episode-till your father
got angry and beat you up.
pretty tough life you've had lack
L was thinking. Good-for-nothing ia
Their and slattern mother and every
KIND of crooked teaching Then yon
were handsome boy, an exceedingly
handsome young man. which is the
worst kind of handicap one can start
out with. And then, to cap the whole
thing, an uncle left you $500 of badly
tainted money. That sort of fixed Won
into a rut, for it riveted your energic,
into making more in the same way
Not many Billy Bobs have broker
through the even tenor Of your life,
Jack"
What are you driving at, Tom?"
growled the prisoner. care you acting
like Billy Bobs, or just stringing me-"
BILLY Bobs, but with a thought TO
the thirty years Intervening between
Jack the boy and Jack the man. Let
me see, you have gathered together, by
devious ways, about $4,000"
"N-no Tom, you're crazy!" etacu-
lated the prisoner, in a startled voice
Il haven't a thing except maybe
thousand or two from-this last lob"
The judge looked at a slip of paper.
Fifty thousand, four hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars" he read.
"aEd it's ~pFe.tv esoss- -
ures. Jack aybe you've got some
small change d your pockets that was
overlooked. Apd we know in just
what banks most of the money is de-
posted and UNDER what names, and
where the rest OF it is hidden. We've
had you under close surveillance for
some time, Jack, and lucky for you.
for it shows me how l can be of real
service"
Huh! I can guess how" snaried
the prisoner. 'The Doodle is going to
be divided. What will be my share?
can't understand how you got track
of it." -
Now, the first thing is to pronounce
sentence said the judge, rising SLOW
~ and putting on his judicial face.
After that We can talk
He stood. looking down at the pris-
oner for some moments, and then said:
For the crimes of which you stand
convicted, John Battey, sentence you
to twenty years In our state peni-
tertiary"
He paused, and the prisoner col
lapsed in a ludicrous heap, his eyes
0ulging
1"-tWenty years, ne suffered
II thought"
But, in view of certain things In
my mind" the judge went on, calmly,
Il will suspend this sentence indefi.
nitely, the length depending wholly on
yourself. If you violate or fail to meet
In any particular the terms am about
to propose, the sentence will immedi-
ately go into effect, and there will be
no later mitigation. Now, pronounce.
as provisional sentence, that you ex-
pend $1,000 Of the money in doing
Christmas work the coming week, com.
tomorrow. There are hun
dreds Of WAYS Of DOING this hut N