Show 4 guilty but brunk THE GEORGIA JUDGE man many y years rears ago while the state of georgia was t in m its infancy an eccentric creature named brown r grafl one of the circuit Jud judge gess he was a man of ability of inflexible integrity and much aved and respected by all the lepi legal profession but ie e h had ad one onet fault autt his S 1 s serial kopial qua qualities cities I 1 won would id lead ym despite his ju aa i t into frequent excesses et fr traveling the t was his almost invariable it the night befort opening the court coart to got get comfortably corned by means of appliances upon such occasions if he succeed while I 1 op operating eating upon his own hook the gentlemen of the law would generally turn tam and help him it was in the spring spang of the year vear takina taking his wi bifi f P a model of a woman in her way in the om d fashioned but strong straw ccarty carry all he traveled some forty miles and reached the where the court was to be opened next day it was along in the evening of sunday that he arrived at the place and nd took tip his ha quarters with a reference to his better half 1 hy chow who the presence of the th official dimity wa consia considered ered a singular honor after supper i julge brown strolled over ovar to the only tavern iw inthe the town where he found amy old fredas bodied to the place ilk p on important professional business and who were proper vw glad to meet him gentlemen 21 said the judge 4 quite a long time since we have enjoyed a glass together it let us take tab a bora all round of course sterritt addressing im the landlord you have better liquor than you h had ad the last time we were here the stuff you had then fas not fit to give a dog sterritt who had charge of the hoise pretended teat every thin thing was ri right fit a 1 and so they went to work it is is unnecessary unnecessary to enfa r e upon a drinking bout bont in the country tavern 4 t will will quite answer our purpose to state that somewhere in the region of midnight the judge wended bended his very velry devious way towards his temporary home about aboaf the timp he was leavi ever some young voting barristers bar fond of a pr practical J lake k e and not ranch much afraid of the bench transferred all the silver spoons of at St erritts to the judges pocket it was eight on monday morning that the judge rose having indulged in the process of ablution and and partaken partaker par taken of a cheerful cheera id and refreshing breakfast he be went to his room to prepare bi for the duties of the day dav well polly said he be to his wife 1 I feel much mitch better than I 1 expected to feel af afier ter the f frolic colle of last aw ah J judge pa 11 said she reproachfully you are getting gatting t too 0 old d you ought to leave olf off that business fw f all ali polly what is the use of talk talking nl w I 1 it was at this precise instant of time that the judge ae having lemu put on his overcoat was proc proceeding eed ing accord according ing to his ais usual custom to give his wife aratin kiss kinq that he hap happened ed i in in thrusting his hand into va us eket pocket to liv fird hold of S spoons he pulled them mont out avith ath an expression of horror almost indescribable ae he exclaimed my god polly P what on earth is is th judge jude 11 11 I just look at these thee spoon 7 dear me vier alerd ld you get them 11 get them dint you vou see the initials on them extend ng thera them tow als r Is her J 1 stole them p stole them jaide judge 11 I 1 yes stole them my dear husband it cant be possible from rom whom from sterritt stem tt over there his name is on them good heavens how could it happen pa tai 6 know ver very y well polly I 1 was very drunk when I 1 came home I 1 11 why cowhy judge you yon know your old habit when you yet A anang among those lawyer 11 but I 1 was verv drunk V pes you boft was was 1 I rem remar kaMy so when I 1 got home mrs wn P I 1 yes fes judge as drunk as a fool and forty times as ft d 1 j 1 I thought so said the judge dropping into a abair in most extreme despondency 1 I knew new it come to that at last I 1 have always thought bat something would happen to me that I 1 should ap rm something ething w on ong ul kill somebody in a moment of passion fusion perhaps but I 1 never imm imagined nned that I 1 should IB in mean enough to be guilty of deliberate larceny 9 but there may mav be some mistake judge 21 I 1 no mistake polly I 1 know vary very well how bow it Z ame me about that fellow sterrit keeps the mean meanest erit r t of liquor and always did liquor mean enough V make a man do any sort of a mean thing I 1 have rays said it was mean enough to make a man steal i now 0 I 1 have a practical illustration of the fact id t the h old man burst into tears JD dont be a child said his wife bipin away the i go like a man over to sterritt Stern tt tell him if was ale 1 e ir bit it of a frolic pass pasa it off of as a a joke fa ro and i court and nobody y will ever think of it again 1 little r 1 I of the soothing system operated upon the e as such things usually do his extreme mortify HI was finally subdued and over to St erritts he t I 1 a tolerable face of course he had but little 0 culty 1 t in settling with him for aside from the iw th that 1 the judges integrity was unquestionable UW an aa inkling of the joke that had been een played ige e brown proceeded to court and took his seat spoons sad ad bad liquor bad liquor and spoons r spoon drunk drank larceny and i judge adge brown was ed up in his worships bewildered bead I 1 he felt awful pale if he did not took look so in the judge felt cut down and hia usual self poa po ed manner of disposing disposing of Ns business iness his fiction diction and diboni were not what judge brown had been noted f veral eral days had bad passed avray and the business of art was waa drawing towards a cloe when one ling it a rough looking sort of a customer was ar red on an a charge of stealing after the clerk read the indictment to him he put the usual stion ion I 1 or not guilty gaila but drunk answered the prisoner A that plea exclaimed the fuze judge who was I 1 dozing upon the bench he e pleads guilty but says saya he was drunk replied clerk the charge against the man py e is indicted for grand larceny chats ats the caw case 0 O ay it please your honor said the prosecuting I 1 boey the man is regularly indicted for stealing irge sum from froin the columbus hotel I 1 e is is eh and he plead e pleads guilty but drunk 11 e J judge I 1 age was now fully aroused III i it y 2 but bruak I 1 that is a most extraordinary ech ao binary h young manore manare man ore are you certain you were drunk t yes es sir 1 I I Where did you yoa set get your laiq liquor nor 4 at 11 vid did you get none nowhere else not a drop sir air you gat drunk on his bis liquor and afterwards stole b 4 money yes 9 air 11 mr prosecutor 92 said the ati I 1 ido t met 14 a nolle pro prosequi in bugl I 1 i llo te licor ictor of Ste St erritts is I 1 As a mon do 14 thing dirty I 1 I 1 atif i t th e liag mya set e awl stole 0 5 W i i spools release the pru pria conr mr shery 1 1 I amoura adjo wt tk the court on the above will be very few lest SOU one oae should make the application to our valley Ua o ors 9 but those who are acquainted need make no such application an and d those thoe unacquainted have hav e only to remember that ignorance is 11 some times |