Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1915 — GATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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ANOTHER MATTER.

As is well known, the law cannot concern itself in any case before it with side issues. These are rigorously excluded. In a case in which a man was accused of forgery, a witness for the defense managed to say: “I know that the prisoner cannot write his own name." “All that is excluded," said the Judge. “The prisoner is not charged with writing his own name, but that of someone else.”