Show MOURNS HIS FIRST CLIENT William Henry Marlatt went into the practice of the law before he was ad admitted admitted admitted to the bar but the lawyers union has never objected to him on that account It was in the summer of 1892 after atter his graduation g from the Yale law school and before he had been admit admitted admitted admitted ted to practice in this state that he found a man In Jail jaU In Lebanon 0 O who was playing checkers with his nose because of a conflict between him himself himself himself self and arid the statute relating to horse stealing Marlatt discovered some Ir Irregularity Irregularity irregularity regularity In itt the tho commitment papers and started habeas corpus proceedings which set st his man at liberty They walked out of ot the courthouse into the street where the man asked the young lawyer to state the amount of his fee tee which Information was fur furnished furnished furnished him without delay The man the money with him having been in Jail jan but he said hed send It at once My best advice to you ou said his lawyer Is to hotfoot it out of town as fast as ever you can before b fore the sheriff gets after you ou with a new set of ot papers Mr Marlatt replied the man If God lets me yve lIve Ive until Saturday night Ill see that you OU get that money And he started down the street on a run They never arrested the fellow but Marlatt is certain sure God let him live because he ho never sent the th money He Just juet started off on a 0 run and for tor all anybody knows he ran him himself himself self to death However Mr Marlatt recalls his first experience at the bar with mingled emotions as he mentions the fee he earned but never nOVer got goL Cleveland Leader |