Show A timely I 1 bit of satire A man in in the file town of committed murder murde r 4 a black diabolic il murder there was not a tingle feature in the case that meroy mercy could render available it was red murder in the trues of nie hie term A lawyer of some considerable emrence was called on by the prisoner bat afler hearing his own statement he would give him no other advice than the tiie following inet ialy galy my friend if you are not hanged it will be because you have hare broken jail cut your throat or or shammed rn inid mid td the murderer took look the lint ile he was not able lo 10 the first he be was unwilling to do the second so he lie atema ed the third lie he came into court on the day of his trial with one ons on glove and one boot on listened with apparent delight to his hia arral arraignment ament and when asked at the conclusion lff iche iff was guilty or not cuty a answered n sw ered with a horse laugh such as I 1 never heard before or since cesi thank vou you dirand no mistake et in tilis philanthropic age this was quite sufficient to arrest the hie torrent of indignation which had been rightfully setting retting against the offender effender and to substitute in place thereof a feeling of intense sympathy sj lle lie ile he is mad said one ill wr fellow m muttered another what a mercy we have discovered it before he was tried ej a tb third ird why dont they take him out of the box demanded a fourth by this time the prisoner in great glee had put his glove upon ha hf foot and thrust his hand into his boot of course this was too much for the feelings of the crowd it was the la last s t hair that broke lle ile the lie camel s back shame ishamel shame was muttered by a dozen philanthropic souls take him out of the box uttered the mob in general certainly sat rold d the te judge take him hlin out byall maans mr air district attorney you can have no objection not the slightest may it please your honor provided you 1 t two or three of the bailiffs built filk fils stand betwixt him and me the by b ra mad made a ansh to execute the man mandate dite of the court but the anner oner checked their zeal though not thesy sympathy by knocking down haifa balfa half balf a dzen ot them with his blis boot the Curt court briefly addressed the jury 1 I boelter into the evidence ev dence dende the unhappy prisoner had bad certainly cestr the life of a man a husband and an d a fathe father r leav ing his widow ind and helpless childred chil chii drep drip to misery and want at the file same time trine it seemed evident that this was the result rather of ne than of crime crime ve we have the evidence of our own senses that the prisoner is mad mad genatt mi n ot he j iry as a merch march hare would ny maii maji m u deot t othni I 1 anti inti c so strange strangely in a r urt rolin roain bijj w wear ar his hib boots arad ills Ms gloves ili ill in so tc centric a immor if lie vas vaa mgt iria tria mad dp 1 4 1 gentlemen 1 have studied the ana nna oll oil the hunan mind with mach industry and add I 1 duink 4 I 1 ni tv s t i considerable success ier tir m lust N S 11 1 I a i particularly gonvers the bulj 11 of 1 I iz 11 s mity the tile train is a or gatt gun it ru m are of still ino rno gimre re delicate I 1 I 1 I 1 rg there are thedora th edura niale pl piter alter pia pla muter mater ter in ng with willi bisecting isec ting at it were the tiie p reu rods rous rou re e af orthe fhe the brain bilin contribute largely to the ot ats transcendent powers I 1 our judge knows sala saia said sald one unie of the kno know w said his hia interlocutor know I 1 think I 1 ie e did all AH I 1 have otto Olto to say any ft 6 t huli hull I 1 never kno knouer ed a man as klows as hnud as he knows i i bui kui continued contino cd the file judge theae these ann I 1 branes beet beck me impaired and even agri demen itt lit aon alson reels and find totters on her ta roie roje I 1 the most pival nt spy ories eslee ciesok bof intellect intellectual uil wandering hou how ever eter is denominated gli ill ihl ill sanity 4 the prominent symptom of isa desire to take away human life such 1 douht doubt not is is the cise crae cate with the prisoner koner ioner may alay it plew piew your honor interposed tiie tile district attorney y dont tou you think lirt that the jury ju might inight pronounce this a case of prosecution v perhaps Perli peril aps apa nt not mr district attorney y re spondee tile ibe judge gel gei 1 I honor you huni hanl eth fth sir I 1 lam iam am ri juiced to see ee can aly r to the feelings which I 1 am compelled lobay tobay too often prompt public but sirki th ilik as a man nian has really been len kimila ki killed IILa 11 i might rp I 1 t be considered a bad precedent to deci beclar erv irv this prosecution a mi licious onil gnitke raef magazine magaz ne |