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The Details of the Battle of Tazang, Fiercest Battle Ever Fought Outside Europe.
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"GENERAL
SIR HENRY POLLOCK'S SPEECH
"if the man has not been murder- i .ed. how
can the prisoner be gulity?" "It you please, your Honour," said the foreman of the jury, "he is guilty. He stole my mare three years ago."
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A kind-hearted old lady left a hundred pounds" a year for the maintenance of her parrot, stipu- lating that the bird was to be pro- duced to her Trustees twice a year, "to prove that the person tending it had not wrung its' neck."
Another kind-hearted old lady
Hardly less peculiar was the will et an Englishman who directed that he was to be buried in a green left a large legacy to one of her coffin with a copy of Horace under
putting his shirt on a horse."
IN COUNTRY CLARE Yet another case of not giving a trie verdict according to the evidence occurred in Country Clare his feet and one of Milton under nephews in recognition of his humane conduct in +onstantly some 80 years ago. Ir a case his head, with a Greek Testament where highway robbery was very in his right hand and a smal clearly proved, the jury. to the volume of Horace in his lelt. scandal and astonishment of the Judge, returned a verdict of "Not Guilty." Thereupon the Judge turned to the High Sheriff and sald In a loud volce: "Mr. High Sher!, please see that this inno- few man is detained for a hours. because I don't want to meet him on the road.“
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Ireland is a great place for sen sational and unusual incidents, Ir one of the Courts in Dublin the presiding Judge. after expressing his views as to the correct con struction of a certain will, addea it is perfectly clear that that wa the true meaning of the testator." "I give all freely. I no limit AxI beg your Lordship's pardon."
An English lawyer, made his wil. in the following doggeret rhyme !--- "As to all my worldly goods
now or to be in store,
I leave them to my beloved
wife, and hers for evermore.
This is my will and she k
executrti
said a voice from the body of, the Court. "It was nothing of the sort." In a jury case before Lord Han- An ungallant did bachelor le The Judge was struck dumb for a nen. a juror who was dressed in the whole of his estate, on his
moment with amazement, and deep mourning and had a down-death, equally between three ladies then burst out, "How dare you in- east expression, claimed exemption to whom he had proposed, and all terrupt the Court, Sr. Who are from service on that day upon the at whom had refused him, giving you?" The man replied. “I am the ground that he was deeply inter-as the reason for his bequest that testator. my Lord." ested in the funeral of a gentle-"by their refusal to marry me i man at which it was his desire to owe to them all my earthly bap- be present. "Oh. certainly," "said piness,”
ALTERNATIVE DEFENCES Sometimes Counsel are ridiculed
the Judge courteously, and the sad A still more ungallant old for raising a number of quite. In- man left the Court. Later in the bachelor said in his will: "I beg consistent add alternative defen- day it was ascertained that he was that my executors will see that Ices. The following extract from an undertaker.
am burled where there is no wo-jan American Law Journal shows
An Irish defendant in a criminalį man to the right or to the left o! that the United States Bar easily case was informed by Counsel that me. Should this not practicable in holds the record in this respect. he had the right to challenge any the ordinary course of thing. | Counsel for the defence, In defend- of the jury to whom he had per-direct that they purchase threeing a client for murder by ad- sonal objections "Faith. and so raves and bury me 01 the ministering poison, addressed the I will." said the man, rolling up middle one of the three. leaving jury in his opening speech as fol- his sleeves. "I will challenge every the two others unoccupied." man jack of them."
On another occasion an accused, being annoyed by certain questions which were put by the foreman or the jury to a witness, burst out at the birth of the second child: st
the
lows:
The terms of the following "We propose to show, gentle- During the address of Counsel singular bequest
will
doubtless men of the jury, that it is im- to a jury, the Judge shook his commend themselves to advocates possible for the defendant to have head, as if in dissent, whereupon of birth-control:
committed this murder. In the Counsel observed. “Gentleman of "I bequeath to my daughter #rst place, we will prove that the the jury, you will notice that His thirty thousand pounds, subject tr} defendant was nowhere near the Lordship shakes his head, but the following conditions: Should scene of the crime at the time can assure you. from a long ex-my daughter marry and be afflict-when it was committed. Next, we perience of His Lordship. thated with children, the Trustees are will offer the indisputable testi- there is nothing in it."
to pay, out of my legacy to her, mony of persons who saw the de- the County Hospital, two thousand fendant on the spot and did not pounds on the birth of the frs see him commit the crime. We child: four thousand pounds or will then show that no poison was found in the body of the deceased. jury with these words thousand pounds on the birth, Not only that, but we will prove "Boobies, asses. Idiots.". "Prison the third child, and an additions that it was put there by the pro- er, you must not say that to the two thousand pounds on the birt:secution in this case. We will jury" said the Judge. "Pray ad-ur each subsequent child until th furthermore show that the deceas- dress your observations to the thirty thousand pounds which led committed suicide. And, last, Court."
have left to her is exhausted. (but not least, we will prove beyond Should any portion of the sum be the shadow of a doubt that the de- teft at the end of twenty years, ceased is not dead. In view of the balance is to be paid to my which corroborative evidence, gen- the Criminal Sessions, contended said daughter to use as she thinks timen of the jury, we ask for an before Chier Justice
Flelding t." Clarke that. by an old Statute of Richard the Second, the accused was entitled to a jury half of whom spoke the defendant's i language. I am sorry." said the learned Judge, "that I cannot ac code to your application. Mr. Ro binson, because, as the jury here consists of seven persons. if your argument is correct, I shall have to order, one juror to be cut half."
In my early days at the
here. a very Ingenious Coun
who was defending a Chinese
SOME WITNESS ANECDOTES
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In a case before Mr. Justice Mathew, a witness, who had been described as a money-lender, prò tested against this designation.."1 am no money-lender, my Lord." he said. "I do lend money. of course, but then I do a great many other things, and have many other tastes. I like birds for Instance." "Pigeons, I suppose." "replied the learned Judge.
A witness, on being asked the profession of her husband; replied "He is a bankrupt, Sir."
A physician, who had been de tained under subpcena, for than days. at the Assizes, pressed the Court to order him his expenses. "On what do you base your claims?" asked the Judge. "My Lord," replied the candid appli- cant, "I have been kept away from my patients these five days and I! 1 am kept here much longer how do I know that they will not al of them get well."
CROSS-
In a case as to the identificatior of certain cattle, the examining Counsel asked a witness 'How far off can you make out"a beast, may I ask?," to which the witness replied, "Oh, about as fa off as I be from you, Sir."
A man was once tried for sheep stealing before Lord Morris, a cele- brated Irish Judge, and the evidence against him was very clear. However, Counsel for the defence insisted upon calling couple of witnesses to depose t the good character of the accused Lord Morris then mammed up t the jury, as follows: In this case gentlemen. the result of the
evidence taken as a whole appear: to be that these sheep were stoler by a person of most excellent character"
WILLS My next subject is eccentric wills.
A patriotic American directer that his skin should be scientific ally tanned after his death an made into a drum; and that h principal legatee on every seven teenth of June should repair Bunker's Hill and beat upon the
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