Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — Deduced It. [ARTICLE]

Deduced It.

Attorney General Herbert Parker, of Massachusetts, can appreciate a joke even though it may lie played on himself. The other evening at the dinner of the Essex Bar Association he related this experience of his own : “At a certain period of my practice,” he said. “I was very sharp on evidences, much sharper than 1 am to day, There was a bright young man on the stand in the upper court who had occasion during ids testimony to state on examination that a man in question had left the shop to be shaved. I interrupted, taking exception to the evidence. ‘“Your Honor,’ I asked, ’how did the boy know what the man went out of the shop for?’ “ ’How did you know?’ the judge asked the witness immediately, ’that the man went out to lie shaved?.’ “ ‘Why,’ the boy replied, ‘of course, I don’t know anything about the law, and perhaps I did not know that lie went out to be shaved, but when a man goes out of the shop with his face covered with a smutty growth and returns again shortly with a clean face I always thought I was justified in presuming that he had, gone out for the purpose of being shaved.’ ” —Boston I Herald.