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 %)t <§reen 38agPublished .Monthly, at $4.00 per Annum.

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Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, Horace W. Fuller, 344 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass. The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of inter est to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosities, facetia, anec dotes, etc. THE GREEN BAG. Early in the year 1899, we shall print a com plete and minute index to the first ten volumes of The Green Bag, — to be sold for fifty cents, in pamphlet form. Subscribers who have the back volumes can bind this Index with Volume 10.

LEGAL, ANTIQUITIES.

It seems to have been quite common, at one time, to sell prisoners. The Supreme Judicial Court at Salem, Mass., in November, 1787, sen tenced Elizabeth Leathe, of Lynn, " for harbour ing thieves and receiving stolen goods," to be whipped twenty stripes and to be sold for six months. At a session of the same court, held in Boston in September, 1791, six persons were con victed of theft, and sentenced to be whipped and pay costs, or to be sold for periods of from six months to four years.

FACETIÆ.

The following epigrams were exchanged be tween James Smith and Sir George Stewart Rose, on the subject of Craven Street, Strand, where the former was then residing : — James Smith. At the top of my street the attorneys abound, And down at the bottom the barges are found. Fly, Honesty! fly to some safer retreat, For there's craft in the river and craft in the street. Sir George Rose. Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges? odd rot 'em! For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.

Attorney (examining witness) : saw shots fired." Witness : " Yes, sir."

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Attorney : " How near were you to the scene of the affray?" Witness : " When the first shot was fired, ten feet from the shooter." Attorney : " Ten feet; well, now tell the court where you were when the second shot was fired." Witness : " I didn't measure the distance." Attorney : " Speaking approximately, how far should you say?" Witness : " Well, it approximated to half a mile." Judge Woodward was approached by a Freeland attorney who desired to have an aged towns man of his excused from jury duty. The judge demanded the reason, and the attorney promptly answered : " If Your Honor please, he is an aged man and can't stand sitting." Judge Woodward quickly saw the point, admitted that it was " well taken," and, enjoying it immensely, he allowed the juror to depart. It dawned upon the attor ney, also. A man being arrested for stealing a horse, in quired of the sheriff, " What do you take me for?" The sheriff replied, "I take you for a horse." The man immediately kicked him out of the place. Magistrate (sternly to tramp) : " The address you give as your place of residence is a vacant plot of land." Tramp : " Yes, yer worship; that's where I sleep most nights." The late Sir Frank I-ockwood was wont to re late, with much relish, an incident that happened while he was yet young as a lawyer. A barrister was conducting the prosecution of a man for stealing a teacup, and in the middle of his ad dress to the jury a telegram was placed in his hand. Instantly the recipient, who had taken a 5s. chance in the Bar " Sweep," exclaimed joy ously— i5<