Pleaded His Own Case Successfully

Springfield, Hls., May 29.- Edward Black has been released from Chester penitentiary by Judge Allen upon a writ of liabeas corpus. Black was arrested in Texas for a state robbery many years ago and was brought to Chester penitentiary. He kept his own time and he and the warden got into a dispute as to the time of his release. Not having any money to employ a lawyer he drew up vii own papers and submitted them to the court. Hé made the point that his sentence should have commenced when he was first incarcerated. Judge Allen sustained this point and set him at liberty.