Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1899 — TOLD HIS CLAM STORY. [ARTICLE]

TOLD HIS CLAM STORY.

How * Funny Detroit Man Won His Vase With the Jury. Marshall P. Wilder, the funny little man, is charged with having with malice aforethought and evil intent sprung a few of his tales on a jury and thereby turned their verdict in his direction, says the Detroit Journal. A few weeks ago Marshall came to town and in the circuit court sued Dr. Hercules Sanehe on a promissory note for SI,OOO. He won the case, and now the counsel for the defense has applied for a new trial on the ground that the jury was improperly influenced. The lawyer says that during a recess Marshall went out into the hall and told the jurymen a lot of funny stories, including that one about the New Jersey clam digger who fed his family on clams so long that their stomachs rose and fell with the tide. T'hat settled it, the Sanehe lawyer sa. T j, and the man who laughs was sob zas a boarding house biscuit with tb ary. They went into court, he says, ana chuckled out a verdict in his favor. The counsel for the defense says Wilder’s jokes would win a favorable verdict from a jury of pine stumps, hence the application for a new trial.