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Show Si-ppose a Case. The District Judges of this Territory are presumed to be always ft this city, to sit as a Su preme Court in matters of great importance im-portance that are supposed to arise under the bankruptcy law, so we are informed. Consequently, the whole range of country north and south of this city is left totally unprotected, there being no District Judge residing in any part of it, Now, suppose a case not at all likely, of course, but st.ll supposable that Associate Justice Hawley should invest some portion of his hard-earned salary in the Sevier or Meadow Valley mines; and suppose he should be traveling from his "feet" by stage-coach or otherwis to this city, to support the legal fiction that the Supreme Court is always in session; and suppose he should be stopped by polite "road agents" and robbed in a gentlemanly and polite way, scared out of his boots number fives, patent leather and his moral and physical man should be sadly demoralized by the attack ; and suppose the Probate Judge of the county where it occurred should instruct the sheriff to proceed and hunt for and capture those "road agents," and he should do it, what we waut to know is, Wouldn't that sheriff be liable to punishment, according to Judge Hawley's law, for makiug that arrest of the men who robbed Judge Hawley and put him in ' bodily peril ? If the sentence is rather i lengthy, remember the Judge is accustomed ac-customed tj deal with ponderous matters. mat-ters. This is no trilling thing, for Judge Hawley might be so traveling, not saying on what business, and he might get robbed, just as Judge MoCurdy did the other night ; and the ' sheriffs ought to know whether or not ' Judge Hawley would punish them fur arresting the men who robbed him j Jiould such a thing unfortunately oc- cur. Tell thorn, Judge ; they are nnx-inn nnx-inn In bp informed. r |