SAYS HIS FATHER IS A KING.
Negro in Independence Jail Tells of
Old Man's Big Salary.
A plea for clemency on the ground that his father is a king who draws a larger sallary than Theodore Roosevelt is made by F. J. Green, negro, held in the county jail at Independence awaiting trial on a larceny charge. At his preliminary hearing yesterday Green was bound over to the criminal court. He is a mulatto of fluent speech.
"My father is a king in Africa," Green says. "He receives 1,000 elephant tusks each year from his subjects. That amounts to $200,000 in United States money. He cut me adrift when I was a boy because I took up with English ways and ordered me out of his kingdom. I have had to make a living as best I might since. First I went to England, where I studied law, but I shortly came to America because I thought that a living came easy here."
The jailer at Independence says Green may be only playing insane.
