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Show The Beth ei. church, ofNew York, whose congregation is composed of the colored aristocracy of the city, has just been trying its trustees for embezzling embez-zling $12,000. The jury was made up of all the members of the church, numbering sonic fifteen hundred men, women, and children, and was presided over by the minister. The accused were represented by "counsel, but the impartial jury pursued a course of brow-beating, toward this gentleman, that would have done honor to a lirst class pettifogger. His pleadings were overruled without ceremony , and his remarks were continually con-tinually interrupted with exclamations exclama-tions of "Where's them lliWXK'J "Tiiey'sc innocent: oh '. yes I" "Pity 'l-outdem, they'seso young." "Cub it to cm!" "Bounce deiu, dcy hab do money !" The trial occupied nearly half a day, at the close of which the minister pronounced the trustees guilty by the unanimous decision de-cision of the jury and expelled them from the church. The jury liien sang the doxology, and adjourmd to the basement for refreshments. The trustees claim that the proceedings were illegal and have appealed to a civil court to set them a side. |