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In the witness-box. Judge. You reside — Witness. With my brother. Judge. And your brother lives — Witness. With me. Judge. Precisely; but you both live— Witness. Together.

NOTES. The arrest of Eyraud, the murderer, calls new attention to the details of the " Affaire Gouffe," as the whole case is one of the most phenomenal in the annals of French crime. An interesting feature is the evident sensitiveness of the girl Gabrielle to the influence of those with whom she may chance to be associated, — a sensitiveness so marked as to have given rise to the belief that hypnotism, voluntarily or involuntarily exercised, may account at once for her participation in the murder of Gouffe, and for her return to Paris, and self-accusation before the court at the instance of a Frenchman with whom she became acquainted in California. It is quite certain that this theory will be relied upon for her defence, and the course of the trial will be watched with great interest. That crime maybe committed involuntarily as the result of hypnotic suggestion is very generally believed by those familiar with the subject, but this seems to be the first case in which an actual crime has been laid at its door. "My son," said an old barrister, giving advice to his boy who was just entering upon the prac tice of his father's profession, " if you have a case where the law is clearly on your side, but justice seems to be clearly against you, urge upon the jury the vast importance of sustaining the law. If, on the other hand, you are in doubt about the law, but your client's case is founded on justice, insist on the necessity of doing jus tice, though the heavens fall." " But," asked the son, " how shall I manage a case where law and justice are dead against me? " " In that case," replied the old man, "talk round it." Crowner's 'Quest Law, often amusing, is sometimes disgusting as an exhibition of the

utter lack of logic that occasionally makes the verdicts of juries of twelve, objects of ridicule and contempt. The learned Dogberry himself, with Mr. Jack Bunsby to back him, could not have uttered a more solemn stupidity than is re ported in the " Railway Review" as coming from a coroner's jury in Philadelphia. An engineer had remained at his post in order to prevent an accident, but his devotion to duty cost him his life. The jury found that the brave fellow's death was due to his own neglect in not leaving the engine when a good opportunity offered. There was evidence that by not taking advantage of that opportunity he had succeeded in stopping his train, and had thus prevented injury to the passengers. But in the minds of the jury the man at the throttle-valve had committed un justifiable suicide through a wilful and criminal attention to duty.

Itecent 2Deatf$. Judge George Partridge Sanger died sud denly in Swampscott, July 3. Mr. Sanger was born at Dover, Mass., Nov. 27, 18 19, being a son of Rev. Ralph Sanger, D.D., Unitarian minister, who graduated at Harvard College in 1808, and of Charlotte ^Kingman] Sanger. He entered Harvard College in 1836, and graduated in 1840. He taught for two years a private school in Portsmouth, N. H. He was appointed proctor in Harvard College in 1842, and then entered the law school. He was admitted to Suffolk Bar in 1846, and commenced practice in partnership with Stephen H. Phillips, then of Salem, and was subsequently for a short time a partner of his college class mate Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth. In 1849 he became assistant to the Hon. George Lunt, then United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; and after Mr. Lunt's retirement he resumed the general practice of law in Boston. He was district attorney for Suffolk County from October, 1853, until the summer of 1854, when he was appointed by Gov. Emory Washburn a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and so continued until the abolition of that court in 1859, when he resumed practice in Boston. In 1861 he was again appointed district attorney for Suffolk District to fill an unexpired term. He