Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1900 — The Judge Would Have Stayed. [ARTICLE]

The Judge Would Have Stayed.

Before a Salt Lake justice of the peace a young man was tried on a charge of gambling. The evidence was conclusive and a fine was imposed' and paid. The court then adjourned, but the defendant stopped behind. He said to the judge: “I want to tell you how this happened. The cop told us if we didn’t stop playing he’d run us in. Well, we were playing a jack pot! I had an ace, three queens and a king before the draw. I discarded the ace and king and drew another queen. There were good hands out against me, and they tried to Muff me out and I stayed with them. Now, what I want to know is what you would have done in a case like that?” “Stayed with them if the gallows had been in sight!” eried the excited judge. “Why, in the name of common sense, was not that evidence brought out at the tidal?”— San Francisco Wave.