Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — A Discomfited Lawyer. [ARTICLE]

A Discomfited Lawyer.

A barrister of considerable reputation on a Northern circuit found it necessary, if he were to gain a verdict, to discredit a certain witness. The cross-examination, therefore, suggested that the youth was a wrong ’un, and that his relatives in general, and his father in particular, were all worthless. The youth demurred. “Don’t you know," thundered uio counsel, “that your father would be in jail if the police knew where to find him?" *T doa't thlnk so.” said the youth. “But you’d better ask him ytoMNit There he sits in the back row of the jury."—London Opinion. .