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Show The Lesser Evil. (New York Times.) ! The prisoner rose and turned his white face, drawn tense with suppressed emotion, emo-tion, ' In the direction of the judge presiding pre-siding at the trial. - "Your honor," murmured" the unhappv-man, unhappv-man, "before I enter my plea I crave the privilege of a .few questions." 1 "Vou rave the court's permission so to do." replied his honor, gravely. "Then, sir, I desire to know whether' I ! shall be compelled to sit here and listen to the lawyers put hypothetical questions to the jurors.'' ! "Perhaps you will." answered the judge. "After which I may ba obliged to hear the testimony of the handwriting experts?" ex-perts?" "Yes." "And perchance be an unwilling follower fol-lower of the reasoning of the insanity experts?" "Probably." . , "Very wef,'. your honor, I am -readv .to enter my pleit.v .cried the ,'pf isor.er in desperation. des-peration. -.;.'.-.' , "And your plea Is"' '' guilty:- . , J 1 |