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a female witness in the box, and the court crowded with ladies, thought proper to speak of the stolen garment as inexpressibles. " Inex pressibles i'" said the Judge, "inexpressibles — I don't find mention of any such thing in the indictment." "Why, no, my lord," simpered the counsellor; " I thought, my lord, it might be as well — (and here he winked and nodded in the vain endeavor to inspire the judge with the same regard for propriety); the indictment mentions breeches." " Then why couldn't you say breeches at once? here, Mr. Sheriff, please hand them up to the lady. Now, ma'am, are you ready to swear that those are your husband's breeches?" In an Exeter, N.H., town meeting, the question of building a new fence about a buryingground was considered. Judge Jeremiah Smith opposed it. "What is the need, Mr. Moderator," said he, " of a new fence about such a place? Those who are outside of it have no desire to get in, and those who are inside cannot get out." While Judge Gove, of New Hampshire, was holding a court in one of the northern counties, he was much annoyed by the coughing that pro ceeded from some of the spectators. He re ferred to it again and again with increasing asperity, until at length he directed the Sheriff to remove from the court-room the next man who coughed. As might be expected this per emptory order had a marvellous effect in stilling the audience. That evening a stranger appeared at the village hotel, afflicted with an incessant cough. " I can tell you how to cure that," said a bystander; " you just go down to the court house, and there is a little wizened-faced judge there who'll put a stop to that cough of yours in less than five minutes, — a sure cure!" In a patent case in New York recently one of the lawyers consumed two days in describing the differences between two scientific appliances. When he had finished the Judge quietly said to him : " Now, Mr., will you please tell us what is the difference! " The lawyer, it is said, hasn't recovered yet. The following good story is told of Judge Dooly of Georgia : — While holding court in Hancock County he had to impose a fine on two men brought before

him for riot. He called on the clerk for a piece of paper, and the clerk, who was frugal in his habits, gave him a small piece of brown paper on which to write his order. The judge threw it to the floor contemptuously, giving the clerk, at the same time, a rap on his bald head. "I would not fine a dog," said he, " on such a piece of paper as that. Go, gentlemen, and sin no more. The next time you are brought before me I will see that you are fined on gilt-edged paper."

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James Payn tells of a friend of his who had avoided jury duty for some time by the assist ance of a government official in acknowledgment of a certain douceur, but he got tired of paying an annuity and wanted it to be done with for good and for all. " For;£io," said the official, "I will guarantee that you shall never be troubled again," and the money was paid. When th6 day came for his attendance at the court, John Jones, let us call him, could not resist the temptation of seeing how his money had been invested. He described the sensation of hearing "John Jones" called out as rather peculiar; it was called out a second time, and he could hardly resist answering to his name; when it was called out a third time, he felt quite eerie, and much more so at what took place in con sequence. A person in deep mourning and with a voice broken with emotion exclaimed : " John Jones is dead, my lord." And his lordship, with a little reflected melancholy in his tone, ob served : " Poor fellow, scratch his name out."

From a standard and entirely sober digest of Illinois reports, under the title " Carriers " and a subdivision as to baggage, we quote the following digest paragraph : "56. Two revolvers in the trunk of a grocer who went into the country to purchase butter : Held, that but one revolver was reasonably necessary."

The opponents of capital punishment in Cen tral Switzerland have raised a curious point of law in support of their movement. The affair arises out of the conviction of a monster named