Show He Drew the Line Pittsburg Dispatch The retirement of Sir Henry Hawkins from the bench of Old Bailey is yet a prolific motive for anecdotes of this jurist His picturesque and magnetic figure is thus described He favored clothes of an oldfashioned and distinctly dis-tinctly racy cut tight trousers a morning coat with large hip pockets noJn lttS and fancy vest and either a white I bowler hat or a stovepipe with a particularly I par-ticularly wide brim The wide brim was softly suggestive of the betting ring it being one of the peculiarities I of school of to affect a sportsmen afect certain cer-tain garb which bears a resemblance to that of the church Finally there is a good story which carries out my description of the impression im-pression which his personal appearance was calculated to produce He used to wear his hair very short When on circuit cir-cuit he and a brother judge went out for a walk Becoming thirsty the two entered a wayside inn in the rear of which two laborers were playing skittles skit-tles Sir Henry and his colleague Joined in the game each taking one of the players as a partner Getting hot Justice Hawkins toot off his coat Soon however the heat forced him to I remove his hat also at which his partner part-ner at once stopped playing Go on my friend said he of the law why do you stop I dont mind being neighborly said the man with his eyes fixed on the judges closely cropped head but Im anged if I be ofleave again to man play skittles with a ticket I I |