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Show Surely Easy for Jury to Believe One Story dulity. But I do ask you to believe one of them. One, just one, gentlemen anyone you choose believe just one out of the eleven, and I am positive my unfortunate client will be acquitted.' acquit-ted.' " Springfield Union. Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway at a dinner in Little Rock laughed about the manifold defenses set up by a . politician who had gone back on the farmer. "All these defenses," Senator Caraway Cara-way said, "remind me of Lawyer Isaacs and the hog-stealing case. To defend this case wasn't easy, for the fool who was accused of stealing the hog had told a dozen different stories about the way the hog came into his possession, and of course, the other side showed that this was a very suspicious sus-picious action on his part. "Isaacs, a funny little chap, wound up his speech for the defense with the words : " 'Gentlemen of the jury, it has been proved that my unfortunate client has told no less than 11 stories to account for his possession of the hog. The hog followed him home, a policeman sneaked it into his hog pen as a frameup, he bought It for $19.75, It was given him by his deceased uncle, he found it on the high road, and so forth and so on. " 'Now, gentlemen of the jury, I don't ask you Co believe all these stories, sto-ries, plausible as they ure. No, that would be too great n tas on your ere- |