Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — Paid in His Own Coin. [ARTICLE]

Paid in His Own Coin.

Sir Frank Lockwood was on one occasion conducting a defense of a person charged with cattle stealing, and was pressing a witness in cross-exam-ination to ascertain how far he was away from the animals at a certain time. “How could you tell they were beasts?” he asked. 1 “Because I could see ’em!” “And how far off can you tell a beast?” Witness looked calmly at Sir Frank and said: “Just about as far as I am from you!” In a humorous letter to the Tlmtes. Lockwood protested that barristers should be protected against such outrages.