| Show THE WRONG WRON PAPER I J have havo been booze engaged in 11 tho tha practise of ot law a n good SOO many years said S S Urmy police judge of Topeka Scan Kan Kanand and end about tho the most humorous thing I Ivor over vor saw in a courtroom was its In Topeka OnO On day nn nfl old od negro man inan was wa being trIed In Iii tho the Justice court that was be before before fore oro tho the of police Judge was as cre and ho demanded a 0 trial by b a II Jury of at his peers lie He could neither read nor lor write and tho tile in lawyer er insisted that the thc jury Jur ury to bo ho his peers as n by law must bo b unable to read or write too To avoid dispute I agreed to U It but we lied had a l time finding 12 men Inen In lit Topeka who whir could neither read nor write nut Hut wo we did find them and the tho case went to trial Before the tho Jury retired I took two wo pieces of paper hager and wrote guilty on ono one piece and ond not guilty on tho the theother other and instructed the foreman of tho ho Jury Ju to tu destroy the ono one ho lie did not wib used and arid to W return the tho other othel to mo me when tho tile Jury reached a 0 verdict The Tho Thoury jury ury was out only a few tow minutes when wh n nIt It t Clime came camoin In The foremen foreman handed m Inc a n apiece apiece piece o of paper with the thu word guilty written on It Itel Well el gentlemen you yap find him gull guil guilty ty tydo do you I IRked No so sali sah no sah sub wo we 0 done found him not guilty up ono one of the Jurymen Then Jhen he ho added with ills dis disgust gust I tole that fool tool ho he waa sas up UI tile the wrong ong piece of or Kansas City Star |
