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Show The Bweetrat Mound to Counsel for the Defeuce. C hlraRO Herald. The great Dan Voorheeg of Indiana and the equally great, if not so celebrated. cele-brated. Joe Manu of Danville once defend a I a man charged with murder iu Jdgar county. This case was a serious seri-ous one for the defendant, and Voorhees and Mann exhausted their talent in hia dofenee, with scarcely a hope of successfully suc-cessfully proving his innocence. The trial was long aud bitterly contested; the jury was out for hours, and finally this verdict was read in court: "We, the jury, tind the dofendant not guilty." As the reading of the verdict broke the stillness of the court room, Voorhees Voor-hees sprang to his feet, seized Mann by the arm with a clutch that nearly took a piece out, and in a hoarse commanding command-ing whisper said: 'Come on! Let's take a walk." They left the court room and walked in silence down the street for some distance. Then Voorheea stopped laid his hand on Mann's arm, and said, impressively: Joe, you're a good citizen, aud I believe be-lieve if ju"tice is done you you'll get to heaven. We are told that iu that land of perfect peace and rest there shall be heard such music as moral car has never heard. Sweet tones will ring on every side; grand bursts of song will rise from myriad happy souls in praise of their Redeemer: murmuring melody will float along on every balmy breeze, and exquisite music will everywhere and forever thrill the ecstatic senses of the blest but Joe, in that heavenly land you will never hear a sound so sweet to human car as as the utterance of these words: 'We tho jury, find the defendant not guilty.' Now let's go and take a drink." |