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Show He Lost His Case. "Judge Emerson, one of the most elo: quent men Illinois ever produced, was once taken down completely in a speech at Decatur," said E. F. Layman, an attorney at-torney of Chicago. "He had a case in which there were Borne peculiarly pathetic pa-thetic circumstances, the rights of a young girl whose property had been j squandered and who was reduced to des-! des-! titution being involved. Judge EmerBon made the most of it, and as he closed his speech a solemn hush had fallen over the courtroom. "Tears 6tood in the eyes of the jurors, and even the judge coughed syni pathetically pathet-ically and hid his head behind the trial docket. His opponent, whose name I have now forgotten, saw that the spell had to be broken in some way, or his case was lost. Arising slowly to his feet, and in a voice of deep solemnity, and with slow deliberation, he said, 'Gentlemen ! of the jury, let us continue these solemn I exercises by singing the one hundred and ; fifteenth psalm.' A roar of laughter I followed from the audience, and Judge ! Emerson lost his case.'' |