Old time justice
It's early in the morning and once again I've been snored out of bed. After looking around at things on the computer I thought I'd look at the local paper. In our local paper, The Star News, there is a section called The Time Machine. In this regular column they have news from the past. Things from 10 years ago, 25 years ago, 50 years, 75 years and 100 years ago. I get a kick out of things that made the news 100 years ago. Like the one this week. Could you imagine trying to do this kind of justice in today's world? I find it very interesting how justice was dealt with in my grandfather's time. Like in one of the old letters written to my grandfather in I think 1919.(I'll post it sometime in the future so you can read it for yourself) In this letter the girl describes a crime in Chicago where a man killed a young girl and hid her body in a coal pile. When she was writing this letter the next day the man was going to be hung. I'm not sure how much time ...