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he had not looked under his pillow, in order to be sure that he was under no possible mistake, and the witness admitted that he had. The defendant was acquitted; but what astonished the clerk much more than that fact was the manner in which he had been brought to say he had looked under his pillow, which he had not done nor thought of doing. It was afterward found that the defendant had given the watch to a girl to whom he was engaged to be married, but who broke off the engagement as soon as she learned how he had obtained it

Jeremiah Mason, the celebrated lawyer, pos sessed to a marked degree the instinct for the weak point. He was once cross-examining a witness who had previously testified to having heard Mr. Ma son's client make a certain statement, anil it was upon the evidence of that statement that the ad versary's case was based. Mr. Mason led the witness around to this state ment, and again it was repeated verbatim. Then, without warning, he walked to the stand, and pointing straight at the witness, said, in his high, unimpassioned voice, — "Let 's see that paper you 've got in your waist coat pocket." Taken completely by surprise, the witness me chanically took a paper from the pocket indicated, and handed it to Mr. Mason. The lawyer slowly read the exact words of the witness in regard to the statement, and called at tention to the fact that they were in the hand writing of the lawyer on the other side. "Mr. Mason, how under the sun did you know that paper was there? " asked a brother lawyer. "Well," replied Mr. Mason, " I thought he gave that part of his testimony more as if he 'd heard it, and I noticed every time he repeated it he put his hand to his waistcoat pocket, and then let it fall again when he got through."

j Seneca County, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1822. He early i determined to fit himself for professional work by a thorough preliminary training. After having passed I through the usual preparatory studies, he was for I a time a student at Hobart College, but finally en tered Yale, from which he was graduated in 1842. Admitted to the bar in 1845, he settled in what was then the village of Ithaca, and was soon in the enjoyment of a growing and lucrative practice. He was first called upon to serve the public in 1848, when he was elected to the office of Dis trict Attorney for Tompkins County. The duties of this position, which he held for three years, were performed in a manner creditable to himself, and highly satisfactory to the people, irrespective of party. From 1852 to 1855, inclusive, he was County Judge, and discharged the duties of the trust with marked care and ability. Judge Boardman became a member of the Supreme Court Jan. 1, 1866, and was in service in that tribunal until 1887, when he refused renomination. He was made Dean of the Law School of Cornell University in 1887. The elements that go to make up a successful judicial career were strikingly exemplified in the life and character of Judge Boardman. He was by nature a judge. His mind was essentially judi cial in its make-up. His habits of thought were judicial. Never hasty in his conclusions, he reached a determination only after having examined consci entiously every side of a controversy. He pos sessed to a large degree what every successful law yer and judge must have; namely, good commonsense, an ability to meet and deal with the practical affairs of life in a practical and business-like way. Far-fetched theories and wordy declamation met with a cold reception at his hands. These charac teristics, which in the work of a lifetime count for more than mere brilliancy, made him a prudent and a safe man, both at the bar and upon the bench. No one could know him without feeling that he was a man in whose judgment confidence could be safely reposed. (An excellent portrait of Judge Boardman was published in the " Green Bag " for November. 1889.)

Accent 2Deatfjsf. Hon. Douglas Boarpman, Dean of the Law School of Cornell University, died at Sheldrake, N. Y., on September 5. He was born in Covert,

Hon. Henry Wilder Allen, Judge of the New York Court of Common Pleas, died on October 13. He was born at Alfred, Maine, in 1836, and grad uated from Dartmouth College in 1854. After