Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — A Judicial Expert. [ARTICLE]

A Judicial Expert.

The native with a stogie met the native with a pipe. “Howdy, Zeb?” quoth the stogie native. “Hear 'bout th' fuss down to th’ courthouse?” “Nope.” drawled the man with the pipe. “What was it about?” “Why, Jim Simpson has been suin’ Abner Hawley for alienatin’ th’ affections of his wife, an’ Jedge Musgrove told th’ jury to bring in a verdick of 6 cents damages, ’cause he thought that was all the damage was worth to Jim. An’ Jim’s wife got mad an’ threw a chair at th’ jedge, an’ he had her arrested an’ put in th’ cooler.” “But didn't th’ jedge go a leetle toe far when he fixed her value so low?" “Not at all, not at all! You see, he was her first husband.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer.