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Show Highly Suspicious. (Harper's Weekly.) "It is a rule, to which good lawyers usually adhere," says a Philadelphia attorney, "never to tell more than one knows. There was an Instance in England, Eng-land, not many years ago, wherein a lawyer carried the rule to the extreme. "One of the agents in a Midland revision re-vision court objected to a person whose name was on the register on the ground that he was dead The revision attorney attor-ney declined to accept the assurance, however, and Jenanded conclusive testimony tes-timony on the point. "The agent on the other side arose and gave corroborative evidence as to the decease of the ma.n in question. " 'But, sir, how do you know the man's dead? demanded the barrister. " 'Well,' was the reply, 'I don't know. It's very difficult to prove.' " 'As I suspected," returned the barrister. bar-rister. 'You don't know whether he's dead or not.' "Whereupon the witness coolly continued: con-tinued: 'I was saying, sir, that I don't know whether he is dtad or not; but I do know this: they buried him about a month ago on suspicion.' " |