Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — A JURY OF SIX [ARTICLE]

A JURY OF SIX

“I hate to live in a new coußtry, said Jones, “where there is no law. “Yes bet yer,” chimed in Thompson. 1 Liw is the only thing that keeps us out of eyerlastiug chaos. ’ “Yes, indeed,” said a legal gentleman present. ‘•lt is the bulwark of the poor man’s iiberty, the shield which the strong arm of justico throws over the weak, the solace and balsam of the unfornate and wronged, the —”

!‘Qh, stop’er,” renaarki d the qaan with one eye, “I won’t have it that way. Law is a boss invention for rascals of ali grades. Give me a oountry where there is no kw and I can take care oi myself every time. Now, for instauce, When I lived ib Ohio I got a dose of law that I viill never forget. I waa in partnership with a man Darned ButKr, «nd on morning we found our cashier mis-iog with $3,000. He had dragged the safe and put it out. Well, I started after him aud caught him in Chicago, whe e he was splurging around on the money. I got him arrested, and thete was an examination. Well, ail the ft ots were brought out aud the deiensegnoved that the case be dismissed, as the prosecution did not make out a case in the name of the firm, and that if tfieie was a firm the copartnership had not been shown by any evidence before the court To my astonishment, the couit said the plea wus O. K., and dismissed ihecaee. Before I could realize what Was up, the thiet bad walked off. Well, i followed to St. Lonis and there I tackled him again. I sent for my partner, aod we made a oomplete case, going for him in the name of the Com-

moo wealth and Smith, Butler & Co. j Well, the lawyer for the defence claim- '■ • 1 that tho money being iaken irem a i prirate drawer ia the safe was my money exclusively, and that my partner had nothing to do with it; that the ease ahonld.be prosecuted by me individually, and not by the firm. The old “bloke who sat on the bench wiped hia spectacles, granted ronnd a while, and duoiissed the case Away goes the man again. Then I got another hitch on him and tried to convict hiiu of the It, but the court held that ha should be charged with embezzlement. Some ye»re after, I tackled lnm again, and they let him go Statutes of limitation you see Well I concluded to give it up, and l did. . •‘But about four years alter war a 1 wus down in Colorado and a man pointed to another and eaid: ‘ That fellow has just made a hundred thousand in a mining swindle.’ I looked and it wag my old cashier. I followed him to the hotel, nailed bins in his*room wi-.h the money. ‘Now,’ I say Bitly, do you recognize your old boss?’ and of course be did. Says I: ‘Bill, 1 want that three thousand you stole from uie, with the interest, and all legal and traveling ex-

penses.’ “Ah, you do?'’ says 1, putting a sixshooter a foot long under his nose. ‘This is the sort of legal document that I’m travelin’ on now. This is the complaiit warrant, indictment; judge, jury verdict, and Sentence, all combined, and the firm of Coif & Co. New Haven ate my attorneys in the cose. hen they speak they talk straight to the point of your mug, you bloody larceny thief This jury of six, of which I wn_ foreman, is liable to be discharged atuny moment. No technicality ot gtatutos of limit itions here, and a stay of proceedings won’t last over four seconds I want §lO 000 to square my bill, or I’ll blow your blastedbiaios out.' Well, he passed over the money right, away >nd saiu he hoped there’d be no hard ieolings. Now, there’s some Colorado law for you, and its the kind for me! Eh, boys? ' And the crowd, with one accord, concurred in the cheapness and efficacy ot the plan by which a man could carry his court on his hip, iustead of appaeling to ti e blind goddess in Chicago and St. Louis.—Salt Lake Tribune,