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Show JELLING STUCK THE' JURY Point of Information They Wanted Involved In-volved No Great Legal Knowledge, Knowl-edge, If Judge Had It. Hero Is ono that wns told at a tea given by Miss Oeraldino Fnrrar, tho singer, when ono of tho party referred re-ferred to tho Judiciary and tho peculiar pe-culiar pases that frequently como bo-foro bo-foro tho courts: "Somo timo ago there was a homicide homi-cide case In n western court In which thoro was considerable doubt as to tho guilt of tho accused. Tho trial Judge scomod to sharo tho popular belief. "'Gentlomeu of tho Jury,' said ho, In concluding his charge, 'If tho evidence. evi-dence. In your minds, ahowB that pneumonia was tho cause of the man'c iluath, you cannot convict the prisoner.' pris-oner.' n "Whereat tho Jury retired and In about ten minutes tho constable returned re-turned and presented himself beforo ho Judgo. "'Your honor,' ho romnrkodi 'tho gentlemen of tho Jury want somo Information.' In-formation.' " 'On what point of evidence?' asked tho Judge. " 'None, Judge,' wns tho rejoinder of tho countable. 'Thoy wont to know Jiow to spoil "pneumonln." ' "Philadelphia "Phila-delphia Telegraph. , |