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 Aunt Lucy s Question Column. turn. I should not now be addressing you." In other words, such acts would have been treason by levying war, and actually were so in the case of those who committed them. But the defense was that the prisoner had nothing to do with the riots, which were, as far as he was concerned, the unintended and unexpected consequences of his imprudent conduct in putting himself at the head of

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a mob for tumultuous petitioning. The jury accepted this view and acquitted the pris oner. The case of De la Motte, in the following year (21 St. Tr. 687) was one of the few English cases under the clause of the treason statute relating to adherence to the king's enemies. De la Motte was convicted of cor responding with France.

AUNT LUCY'S QUESTION COLUMN. BY ARTHUR F. GOTTHOLD. that's as close as it ever gets —would bring AUNT LUCY will answer questions of the scoundrel to terms. little correspondents on topics of legal interest. All letters should be plainly ad 419. "Dear Auntie:—While riding in a dressed on the inside and marked "For THE street car the other day. a pauper child GREEN BAG, U. S. A." knocked a penny belonging to me on the muddy floor. While I was on my hands and 417. ''Aunt Lucy, Dear Madam:—I dis knees looking for it (to wit, the penny), I charged my Japanese butler the other day was carried seventeen blocks beyond my des for refusing to serve Russian caviare on a tination. The conductor refused to give me china plate. Have I any redress? a transfer. Have I any remedy against the Yours, etc., Commissioner of Charities? A HOUSEWIKF." Your little nephew, This is such a delicate question of interna R-SS-LL S-G-." tional law that I fear the daily papers alone Fudge, my child. can answer it. As a preliminary measure, I 420. "Dear Aunt Lucy:—My father was should urge you to hide behind a door and a Turkish odalisque, and my mother a Cauimitate a charlotte russe. This will prob cassian beauty. I was born in Portugal dur ably catch your butler and the matter ~an ing the temporary absence of my parents, then be adjusted out of court. and was brought up in a convent. I have 418. "Darling Aunt Lucy:—I met, oh, married an American girl, who got a divorce such a lovely young gentleman, this summer. from me. In 1887 a burglar, named Smith, He used to call me 'Stubbs,' and promised robbed my mother-in-law's house, was con me some chewing gum. He ain't ever sent victed and imprisoned. I have been asked the gum. Can't I put him in jail for breach to sign a petition for his pardon but learn of promise? that he is dead. Please, тд'ат, what shall Passionately yours, I do? Your ob't serv't, MYRTLE." S. XRSQLVWRSTRSK." This is certainly a case where litigation should be started promptly. But I doubt if criminal proceedings are advisable. I think an;>ction in the nature of a quo warranta—

Unless the decedent's executors revive the action, I feel certain .that you are free from any liability. Besides, the Statutes of Limi tations is a bar.