Show 4 JUDICIAL kindergarten use of the sign language lAn rAn gnaffo guage la in sentencing a prisoner oner once upon a time says george IL B hayes there was a judge named redman who presided over a big territory which kept him bin racing from santa C cruz to salinas and san luis bispo the spanish population was vas the chief race to be found in that district and redman knew but two words in n the language which were no aud and was arit to the necessity of employing a court interpreter who attended him in his rapid tour of the big circuit it happened that a murderer was to be sentenced in monterey and that an important trial must be aA miles away on the same day redmans Ked Red mans interpreter ter preter had gone off to a fauda fandango ugo in the wilds somewhere and ana be found when court was opened and redman bedman was in in a fury of impatience at last when he could endure the delay belaj no longer lon er he said to the nian man lelow below in the dock doch prisoner at the bar stand cupl up no said the man shaking ring his head stupidly you dont savey do you L exclaimed zel aimed the judge sharply well do you understand der stand this and he proceeded to gesticulate tic vigorously with his hands and indicate the motion of rising the man finally comprehended and arose stiffly in in his seat prisoner at the bar it is the sentence nee of this court that you be taken from tho the place whence you came on friday the I 1 ath day of june next be hanged by the tha neck until you are dead and may god have hare mercy on your soul boul now naw do you yoo tavey savey that the poor prisoner shook his head in in a bewildered fashion and could only cry no no 11 I 1 Is there anybody present in this court who can translate that awful sentence to this prisoner prison er demanded the judge of the half a dozen of officials and spectators in the room they were all in the same boat as the tha prisoner and could only ahnke their heads mournfully well exclaimed the judge a bright thought striking cing him ril HI just show you then this layf whereupon he unreeled a yard of red tape that lay on the desk and twisting it hurriedly about his own aeck held the two ends end high shigh over his left ear at the same time rolling his bis eyes and wagging irIg his tongue down against his chin A dreadful groan went up from the P prisoner prisoner and from the others in the court room they understood tho the gri grim in judicial kindergarten completely sau san francisco examiner |