Show I I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I ITHE THE JUSTICE WHO SAW RED REDBy B By T E Edwards This daily series serle ot of anecdotes and incidents that throw now interesting and frequently ten dramatic m t c Mcf light on u eventS and personalities of the past have o been collected rl by Edwards rd d during nearly o forty years of more or It loss s r inti intimate mote mate with many ot of tile tho leaders Ince the Civil war Each Ench anecdote or Incident is III fresh from Mr Edwar ss notebook and either In or In part It eOn cOnstitutes New Newe ot of Yesterday garnered from the men Wile who made the tho from eQuall authoritative As Im Important important contributions ot of the tho human Ullman Interest sort to American hIstory these have II a all their thel r own Thou Though h his ha da was ras n a generation and more ago tho name and deeds or of Philo of thu tho supreme court are arc still traditional In the north central portion of oC New Ne York state For many mai years emS ho was one of at tIle tho ablest justices or of the tho state so 80 able ablo In fact that IlL IlLers law yore ers fond or of bringing their cases before him himIn himIn In all m my judicial experience once said the late Judge Alpheus Mason orason I a member or of Now York states highest court I 1 am certain that I have hae never nevor mot met with an any man better qualified to typify Impartial justIce than Justice Ho know lie Ho had almost t knowledge or of whether or not a witness was tolling telling the tho truth And ho he had a faculty or of corn cam cammon cornmon mon sense to nn any interpretation of the tho law so that his decisions were rarely b by the hIghest court But Justice Gridley had one ec cc sa say that all men or of brilliant Intellect have hae some weal weakness mess messor or prejudice I t presume they have llave At any rato Judge weakness Wal that ho he could not bear benr the tho sight of oC a man who wore a 11 red Cd necktie It lard had almost t the upon him which n a red rag Is said aid to havo upon n a bull Ho He never attempted to conquer the tho prejudice but lot It have hwe full with him Well there thero cuno n a day when sitting In the tho capital of oC Lewis count county hM had brought before him for trial a case caso celebrated In ill western New York vel very Important litigation Involving a amount of oC mone money and a careful Inter or of the tho law It was ono one of those tholo cases cacs of oC fin say that the are arc about equal for either d But great Its was the Interest taken In the trial It seemed to palo some somewhat I what when Its noticed that tile the justice clearly was not possessed I of hIs u usual mal unruffled and judicial composure On the other hand each i succeeding day of oC the trial seemed scorned to add to his strange Irritation II a Stance that caused widespread corn com comment ment and on w there was no au enlightenment the justice keeping his affairs to So thu tho trial went on Ca to Its logical Conclusion and when It came time for the tho to instruct the jury tho courtroom Was pItChed many lawyers coming from adjoining towns simply to he the charge chargo And a very able and LInd impartial charge chargo It was sustaining all the wa through the high tion Its author had won as n a fair In or of the la lao nut But with the tho last Int sentence of his written or formal Instructions do de Justice Gridley bolted upon the bench and squarely Into the eyes ees of the jury Jur JurAnd And nO now gentlemen of the jur jury ho said after n a moments pause nn and l ut In a ory earnest and Im j 1 chargo yoU again that Ir if you ou bellove the of tills this ho emphasized d insinuatingly the word will bo be your worn duty to return a verdict In his favor But I want also to 80 to lo gentlemen of oC tim tho ju jury that In the tho course or of n a lon iong experience ns as a man as n a lawyer lawer and st as n a judge I reachel tim tho unalterable that and truth do not go 10 with a Ted red Ho turned and glared at the tho flam flaming Ins neck piece of tIle tho poor thing that had caused CaUSel him to see Ioe red to show an unaccustomed irritation all through the course of oC the tho trial You Toll mn may now retire gentlemen or Of course courso there thoro was rent great coaster conster nation In iii tue tho court at al once and ane In the midst of It the Jur Speedily returned With It a verdict against the Ot Or Course also an appeal was taken and a now lOW trial ordered In whIch the I Was the tho party But Justice was content Ho He had let the tho jar jur know what ho hll necktie thought or of n a man who wore a red |