| Show DELAYED indignation the lan lawa lanis is delay la Is one of the grievances grievance of the times with which everybody to IB more or less leas familiar it excites more wrath among bouli boule he be reformers thau than almost any other evil and in iii general it comes in or more wholesale denunciation and se complaint than all other 0 the body combined comkin ed yet the jaws jaw s delay Is ie nothing more nor less tn in nine cases out of ten than the litigants 19 delay either laziness on the part of attorney or client or a t opportunity to gain by postponement an n advantage over an adversary ie 18 resDon responsible sible for nearly all the he celani commo commonis but ut justly attributed atin buted to abe law A cake in point homely bowel yand and sad bad but true on monday last apt an indiana court listened tu to a complaint evidence and liw hleap concluding with a jurys verdict of not dot guilty the rhe defendant was a horrid man the plait tiff iff either a charming woman or fur for the purposes of the suit that sweet orea husband the charge was wa double barrelled and the evidence evl evi ence tu ku t u calmed it ii in fleet it was that it in march jast defendant called at plaintiff Is house bouse to deliver ic 10 and n without provocation and without much resistance kissed said eald plaintiff two months later or of in may the indignity was repeated under the same earns circum stances atances as before that P 1 no provocation no do resistance though daily flatts with the ice during the inter time were presumed and nut not disputed these were the materials on which the indictment or complaint was based and a segregated charge of assault was preferred but the evidence while it fremed to prove all this also abo showed wed that the abe the complaining witness was the ibe plain tl tia had bad nursed her indignation with such extraordinary patience as aa to bather b be jury rudely kissed bilged it in march she be bore it without a murmur until antii mayveen may when the uncultured log ice man again took the same ame liberty arid amid till still she he murmured not from march tu may is two month from may to july Is ie also alao two but though the via tor continued his bis daily rounds with the the family tee loe he suffered july to pas without attempting anymore kiedes at last in augut august the poor woman 1 I 1 j her husband but his bia indignation was also of the tardy sort for he be waited until Septer otier belore before invoking the law the rest reel oi 01 toe the story hits haa been already told ane kissing in march and the kissing in may were proved as were also alao the august explanation to the husband and the Jat batters iatter a demember BeD of assault the rho cold cheu latina jury concluded the whole affair with a verdict of not guilty and ana me tu inference ia I 1 either that indiana lei men have a guaranteed precedent for undue with their customers or that indiana wives will be required henceforth to state their case came with more promptitude of courie coune if it is advisable advie able to think wice before speaking once it 11 is ie de to think several times before acting at kil hi but we submit that thai several months montha of delay to rather more than in ig necessary for a came of win kind it if the iceman who prot ably top stop to think touch much was too big and burly to be hit bit over the head bead with wita a enuval by trio the wife or pitched down the th stairs next day by she he husband bue band there was all the more reason fur securing at once the serviced of tle tie magistrate magr and a policeman rho leisurely manner iu in chien this thio recourse was undertaken relieved the jur jury y of natural embarrassment I 1 and while I 1 ustica in its 18 strictest sense may not have been attained in the verdict there is ia a measure of relief in the thought that some of the halt baiting I 1 ng alays attributed to the law are charge ceble ble to 0 o those who tardily fly to it or who babinic gotten into its sanctuary least of all want its decision |
