Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — A Hogasa Witness. [ARTICLE]

A Hogasa Witness.

Mt. Pleasant (Tex.) Special. A novel scene was witnessed in our county court here to day. A case of hog-theft was being tried before a jury, and the court decided that the marks on the sow unfit r dispute were not made plain to the jury and ordered the hog brought into court. The hog was sent for, an<T the plaintiff in the ease, assisted by.a negro, dragged it from its pen, the street, and to the court bouse, which by the time the hog witness had been placed upon the witness stand for examination was packed by an eager crowd, who wanted to hear the hog give in her evidence. The jury wm called upon by his Honor to examine the marks of Mrs. Hog, and after they had fondled her much marked and muHlased ears, she was let out from the presence of his Honor and carried back to her pen; ____