to jail and two days afterwards was brought up for sentence which was—“ten years at hard labor in the State prison at Trenton.”
Good heavens! All this for being courted and won by a widow!
The day following, I was taken in irons to Trenton. The Warden of the prison, who wanted to console me, said that, for the offence, my sentence was an awful one, and that he didn’t believe I would be obliged to serve out half of it. As I felt then,
to jail and two days afterwards was brought up for sentence which was—“ten years at hard labor in the State prison at Trenton.”
Good heavens! All this for being courted and won by a widow!
The day following, I was taken in irons to Trenton. The Warden of the prison, who wanted to console me, said that, for the offence, my sentence was an awful one, and that he didn’t believe I would be obliged to serve out half of it. As I felt then,
