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Show Not Guilty. There had been a railway collision near a country town in Virginia, and a shrewd lawyer had hurried from Richmond to the scene of the disaster. He noticed an old colored man with a badly injured head, and hurried up to him where he lay moaning on the ground. "How about damages?" began the lawyer - " But the sufferer waved him off. "G'way, boss, g'way," he said. "I never hit de train. I never done sich a thing in all mah life, so help me Gawd! Yo' can't git no damages outen me." |