November 11 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “More trial—a weary day in court. Benar stayed to go with me, and be with me. Paine came for billiards with the King. At dinner I went to pieces” [MTP: IVL TS 79].

The New York Times, p. 4, reported on the sentencing of Mark Twain’s burglars:

TWAIN BURGLARS SENTENCED.

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Men Who Broke Into Samuel L. Clemens’s Home Get Prison Terms.

DANBURY, Conn., Nov. 11—When the trial of Henry Williams and Charles Hoffman, accused of breaking into the Italian villa of Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain,) at Redding, several weeks ago, was resumed in the Superior Court this afternoon, both men changed their pleas of not guilty to guilty.

The court sentenced Hoffman to not less than three nor more than five years in State prison. On the charge of burglary Williams received not less than five nor more than six years in State prison, and on the charge of assault with intent to kill, to which he also pleaded guilty, not more than four years in State prison [Note: not mentioned if Sam attended the sentencing.]