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Show C i I J J ...7 II I m$"0 Y7N C AS5; ; : Ju-ic Andrew J, Dlttcnl defer of Hew Yolrk Tells of i Two Interesting Efsodes In His pactlcc. "I never heard of the "principal ji lawsuit betntr drawn on the Jury tt thr his case but once; that wu In 'tw Tork City many years ago. was counsel coun-sel on one side and Handsome iyck Newcombe was my opposition."! i'he speaker was Judge Andrew J. mjen-hoefer, mjen-hoefer, one of the most prominent lawyers law-yers of the metropolis, millionaire land raconteur of rare ability. 7 "The case occurred In my stressing flays when I was glad of any client that came along.- A certain little Ee'irew, David by name, was sued forjh.ving bought some stolen goods It was charged with having obtained ,fi htm In-a In-a manner more- adroit than op nl The case was placed on the calendar fnd In the course of two or three J ears It reached the top. Richard Newcombe represented the plaintiff. During the three years the case was comL- d up for trial David had failed In bu ,idiess. I had not laid eyes on him In tl e jinterim Indeed I would not have known him anyway, as I have always 4eJen very near-efghled. . " Jf J Wife Looked Familiar. j "To Illustrate my visual disability I may say that one evening i tvas at a party and was called , by 4 lady who. wished to talk to me. She 'n-ltb two others was sitting In a w.n0ow seat. They made room for me.f Something about one of them seemed f lrnlliar and I ventured to assure her f ak her face seemed familiar to me, but that I was Unable to recall .when - w had met. 'You silly boy,' she rejoine am Mrs. Dlttenhoeferl' There w ri eighteen cases on the first call of the calendar ahead of the David case. went over with my young mail and after measuring measur-ing up the probabilities I decided that David would not bjecalled on to plead that day. So I left my clerk as a matter mat-ter of precaution land returned to my office, taking up itome other matter. Couldn't rind Client. . "On the second) call of the calendar, however, everything went to pieces and the first cpse to answer - 'ready was the David fase. My clerk hustled off for me, and Jwhtn I arrived In court the Impassioned Dick - Newcombe was. shaking bis hamdsorae mane at the jury already lmpaVieled. and soon after closed his opening address. I squinted around the coil rt room and failed to find David. -'Wherie Is David V I asked. .'He was here a short while ago,' said my clerk; he wenft Into the corridors to find him. NewcWmbe had not seen him either. Flnailly after much searching David was fAund sitting op In the Jury box as calm as Judge Larremore on the bench and listening to the proceedings. proceed-ings. I - - . "I leanedover and said to Newcombe: 'Say, Dicky I guess I cannot go on with this, case tfoday. Won't you agree to an adjournment? I have a reason for asking ask-ing a god one.' 'Adjourn?' said Newcombe. New-combe. . 'fio. Indeed, that would be asking ask-ing too Hauch, Can't think of It after having riade my opening address.' 'But i you wllli". sai-I." and told him to look at - the Bury "welL When the . truth dawnedpn him he was dumfounded. WouldFine Him for Contempt. VJudfce ' Larremore was apprised of the matter, and he, being a great stickler stick-ler for the strict observance of court form. was for fining David for con-tempi. con-tempi. How did you dare go up there? thundered the irate Judge. 'VelL you see, IShudge, it vas dees a-way. De cleeifg, he called me by mine name der shuify list vrom und I vendt up here and took a seat. Vaat else couldt I do, youfr Honor?' ' "Bure enough. Investigation showed thit my client's name had by one of these ,rare turns of fortune's wheel been celled In his own case. He being not oVer bright and In addition not well versed in American customs, had an-sAvered an-sAvered all questions asked and finally ttad been told by the Judge himself to take a seat in the Jury box. He. sup-nosing sup-nosing he was doing right and not dar-ing dar-ing to disobey the court, bad done as he was ordered. . Jury Dismissed. "At first Judge Larremore was for fining him and sending him to prison, but we pointed out that no one with good sense would have done such a thing. It being impossible that he could have acted as Juror In' the trial of his own case without detection. The Jury was finally dismissed and David was let go by the court. '"But, David,' said I to him as we left the court, 'do you not know you ought not to have tried to act as Juror on your own case? What would you have done if we had not found you In time and the case had been tried V " 'Vhy, Meester Dlttenhoefer. I vould sure haf tried de case honest, yassar, and dem Jurors vould t have had to bring a goot verdict or J would haf disagreet. For vhy, ain'dt I know more about the facts in date case as all the odders on de Jury? Shure, I dldt." Another Yarn. Here's another yarn from the lips of the Judge which is almost as good as the first: "When I was a young man I took plenty of interest in politics of New York City and was accorded some high honors. For many years I was leader of the Twenty-first Assembly district and of course had the apportioning appor-tioning of patronage. Among my best men was one Mike Finn, a man with plenty of ready wit and a strong following. fol-lowing. Mike was one of those who did deliver the goods and he had to be taken ta-ken into account. I took good care of him in the matter of appointments and considered he'd baen cared for. But Mike had still one more friend to take tare of. He was serious and urged me very hard. I finally told him I'd see what could be done and went down to see Chester A. Arthur, then collector of the port and subsequently President. 'No use,' he said. 'You have got everything every-thing coming to , your district and I can't possibly help you.' "We looked the list up and looked It down: we scanned . it crosswise and scratched our beads to make room, but It was no go. Finally Mr. Arthur said he'd found it; that I could lay off any-' any-' one of my appointees that I had no special spe-cial Interest in for awhile, appoint Kinn's man to his place and then the next vacancy occurring the discharged man should be reinstated. So I looked over the list and finally ran my pencil through the name of a fellow that I had no knowledge of. t Brother-in-Law Appointed. "Finn's brother-in-law. by the way. It was a brother-in-law, was appointed, and I breathed easy at thought of having hav-ing done a fine ljlece of political work. That night I went to the headquarters of the district and saw Finn there. I naturally expected him to come and tell how pleased he was. Instead he turned his back on me and refused to look my way except with a scowl. Finally I went over to him. 'Finn.' I said with the smile of one who has done a benev- olent deed and aoes not care wno Knows 'it: 'Finn. I got your brother-in-law appointed' ap-pointed' to a custom-house Job. Don't you think you ought to come around and thank me for it?' "Finn stuck his big fist In my face-pretty face-pretty close, too and fairly howled: "Thank you for nothln. d you. Ain't ye done gone and had one of me brothers-in-law discharged from the customhouse custom-house to make room for the other? Och, an' it's a howly pickle ye hov got me lntll wid all me kinsfolk, so ye hov wld yer, hiring and discharging av me rllatlves. Next time I armed myself with a list of Mike's relatives and the discharged brother-in-law was reappointed reap-pointed at the expense of one who had not the honor of Mike's acquaintance." |