| Show TIIADDEOS STEVENS did not hesitate away from the bar to express his contempt empt for a court whose views differed with his Upon one occasion when arguing a case before a judge in Adams county Pa who interrupted him frequently fre-quently with adverse remarks and his tened impatiently to his arguments Old Thad with ineffable disgust pictured on his face slammed down a book he was reading from and turning his back on the bench limped outside the bar and was hobbling as rapidly as he could toward to-ward the door The judge as soon as he could recover from his astonishment shouted Stop Mr Stevens are you tryingio show your contempt for the court Without stopping or turning the wrathful old man replied No by G I am endeavoring to conceal it and left the courthouse never to return i to it while that judge was on the bench 0 0 c > < > |
