"I heard him
sentenced to a year myself!"
"I can't help that," said the district attorney. "The other
day a workingman went down to the Island to see his old friend
`Johnny Dough.' There was only one `Johnny Dough' on the
lists, but when he was produced the visitor exclaimed: `That
Johnny Dough! That ain't him at all, at all!' The visitor
departed in disgust. We instituted an investigation and found
that the man at the Island was a `ringer.'"
"You don't say!" cried the lawyer.
"Yes," continued the district attorney. "But that is not the
best part of it. You see, the `ringer' says he was to get two
hundred dollars per month for each month of Dough's sentence
which he served. The prison authorities have refused to keep
him any longer, and now he is suing them for damages, and is
trying to get a writ of mandamus to compel them to take him
back and let him serve out the rest of the sentence!"
Probably the most successful instance on record of making use
of a dummy occurred in the early stages of the now famous
Morse-Dodge divorce tangle.
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