Show NEGRO GETS FORTY DAYS ban garrett is confined in county jail story told in rhyme by dentist lawyer who conducted defense at first trial junction fob felt 21 during the past welk ben garrett a transient negro minstrel has been on tri tn il here chirped with maliciously cutting and bounding t 0 cov cos s owned by john whittaker of circleville Cir cleville ile he wis found guilty ind and is now k serving a term of fort dis d i s in the county jal iii As there is no practicing it lorney torney here the court appointed an old re resident dentist named blink ird to conduct the defence when the jury hid bid deliberated fourteen hours it was as dismissed after having reported that the jurors could not reach a erdice erdi ct the defendants fend ants friends maintained that gar rett did not hae a fair trial and volunteered to provide a lawyer to take the place of the den dentist tit the latter was nas discharged the case was retried and garrett was found guilty mr air BIan kard feeling thit that he hid bid been turned down was vias overcome b bi the d dac me ine afflatus an ana the following is i the reu result lt trul trial of the whistling coon poor boss ate i carrott so one mispah garrett in the pitch black birkness dir kness of night went out to the barn so the yarn to give ent to his pent up spite at daN light next net morn poor ben looked seemed thit hit he had not slept a wink now hebe wills mr car nas not ery cry far so straightway lie he went ent fora drink the court knows not how the coon cut the cow though the witnesses all told the truth but the dent liw lidier er said with ith a snake of his head that the I 1 law tv has more roots than a tooth some say the defense hive have right cond bense that the head i is quite cracked though the thing made him sick he was still pretty slick anis all must admit ab a fact A new trial was then the next refuge for ben the proofs must once more be gone through andy carl and the rest retired the deftest and hired a lawyer lawler in n lieu yet the crocked cracked head was act if we go by the test of results le ie aults on aich which ie not en the prosecution won von put the defense on the run for ben was as found guilty as charged |