Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1901 — Only a Lawyer. [ARTICLE]

Only a Lawyer.

When Justice Bookstaver was on the supreme court bench, he had as special officer or attendant a punctilious old German, who always stood guard at the door leading to the Justice’s private chambers when the Justice was within. One day a prominent lawyer and two of his clients called and asked if the Justice would receive them. The officer threw open the door and called out loudly to the Justice: “Shudge! Two shentlemans und a lawyer vants to speak mit you.” The three gentlemen laughed. “Vor vhat you lass, eh?” “Don’t you count me a gentleman?” asked the lawyer. “Ach, you’re a lawyer only; dat’s different”—New York Mall and Express.