Show SECURED A COh CONTINUANcE ANCE Sharp TrIck Perpetrated by en an In Ingenious Ingenious genious Illinois Lawyer Pike County nis ills Democrat Ethan Allen Alien of Springfield tells a pretty good story of how S years ago when he was editor ot of a Carlinville paper he the press agent of a cIrcus to time and made him pay the paper Its price for a big advertisement by threatening to smell small smallpox pox the show But up till last week We dont know that we had kad ever heard or of an attorney working this bluff blutt on a acourt court and jury and the little incident which occurred In th the county court courtis is quite laughable W H Crow was attorney for tor a aman aman man under indictment fOr an assault and the case had bEen continued soy BeV etal eral times time on one pretext and another and was up again and the prosecution was Insisting on going to trial Mr Crows rows witnesses were not present and to go to trial under the circumstances would surely result In a conviction or of his client and just what to do he was wasat wasat at a loss to kno know The jUry was as in inthe i ithe the box ready to be passed pas ed upon and things were becoming desperate for tor Mr Crow when all at once a bright thought struck him and addres addressing his honor he announced that the de defense defense was ready for tor trial but at the same ame time stated that he thought it was 8 fair to the court and all con concerned corned to state that his client had been expos exposed d to the smallpox and was just about due to break out with it But said he as tAl as I 1 am concerned I h hOve ve lad had smallpox and am not afraid 0 Of It and it If the others Interested In Inthe inthe the case are to proceed I am The bluff like a charm and it itU Itis U is nd to say th t It was the mo mona s oPinion of the pro prosecution judge and jury that they ther had hotter better take no and the attorney got his con continuance continuance It however jg is due to Mr Crow to state that his client resides in ina ina a neIghborhood where there has been beena a case or two ot of smallpox recently and m may bae been exposed but up te td last accounts had not broken out yet yetI I |