Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Curly Haired Men. [ARTICLE]

Curly Haired Men.

It is not generally known that there is a well-defined prejudice against cur-ly-headed men when it comes to choosing a jury to try criminal cases, says the New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat. The prejudice, when ft is manifested, comes from the defense. When asked to explain the objection to curly-haired men a prominent practitioner recently said: “When I was jest starting my legal mentor inculcated that idea in me. He said that curly-hraded men had almost invariably been pampered darlings of their parents, ami in their youth had been so used to Having their own way that they had come to Relieve 'that everybody on earth was wrong except themselves. In this way the seeds of opposition are sown, and when they grow older they make it a point to disagree with everybody and everything. If everybody else on the jury votes for acquittal they vote for conviction, as a matter of course. They live on combat, and are as stubborn as the days are long. A curly-haired man never gets on the Jury when I am defending a man if I can see him in time.”