Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-12-04

shoulders, ana leaves his victim To his
fatc-who will be brought up at the scs-
sions, and when arraigned, will say, 81
don't see my counsel here !" The Off
cials and spectators give sort Of ncredu-
lous wink ut these words, while the poor
fellow thinks of his property and the coun-
sci it might have procured him! But of
course he don't see him-he has another
engagement just then in the Marine
Court, or in ward court up town. The
poor unfortunate client is better without
COUNSEL Judge, jury, and district attorney
he don't stand the chance of his own coun-
sci, as is sometimes the case, injecting
the merits Of his trial with an unpleasant
odor. But to return to the committing Of
fee. If the papers are not very strong,
he hurries off for a habeas corpus, fills up
a writ and an affidavit, gets the signature
of his credulous client (and sometimes, if
necessary, slips in blank bill of sale
along with the other papers, and it passes
for one of them with the nervous client),
and posts off.
He is immense on the subject of an
alibi or a habeas corpus. These are,
with him, the north pole and south pole of
the world of law, and perjury is the grand
equatorial line half way between. Won't
he manufacture you pretty alibi! Why,
if necessary, and his victim will pay
enough for it, he will issue commission
to Ohio 10 some pal of the accused, and
run on there express, disguised, to either
superintend the thing himself, or, if needs
be, to be the witness himself Sloperton
Slawl has been known many time-by
the initiated-to read his own evidence to
the jury, and acquit his client. This is a
wonderful stroke.
His cross-examinations are stereotype.
If larceny, he goes to the value and want
of identity; if robbery, the complainant
must be made drunk; if burglary, it goes
to the fastening; if false pretehses, there
was no due caution, and, indeed, an ex-
perienced hand can tell, almost before he
commences, what the questions are going
to be. The Judge will frequently say,
before some of them are put-"We will
note your exceptions, Mr.. Slawl." A
stroke which is relished exceedingly by
all the back benches.
His oratory runs in one channel. He
abuses the police and witnesses. Having
very little value for his own evidence, he
feels the same for that against him, and
! de.4ounces and tears away at ii like g
baffled lion. But he has his friends OF
the police, whom he protects, for the!
send him business, and he is not migrate
t full. AS a general thing, he Away
5 strengthens the case Of the prosecution b.
bringing out new facts, or. placing th'
, older ones in stronger light. Some 0
the malevolent have said that it is of.el
his interest to get his clients locked up fo
!. ten years, lest they ferre, on. his recen
: pIunderings
= Bail-brokerage is very thriving paI
# of his trade. When habeas corpus ha
g failed, when an alibi was impossible I
e cook up, when hope is perfectly dim, whe
Il buying off or frightening the witnesse
becomes dangerous job, then he bethinl
r. him of bail for his client. For one hur
Il dred dollars he will find man of straw
il with a tender conscience, who will justif
W in Harlem lots to any extent, and, if neeC
- be, bring before the Judge the deeds al
Do mortgages, or an abstract of the title
N is needless to say, they are all abstracte
," After the Judge is humbugged, how !
in will sit in his inner room, and chuck
~ over the District Attorney and the Sher
10 trying to hunt up the man who gave ba
a or the property rendered seizable by VI
n. tue Of the forfeited recognizance
to Sloperton Slawl is a capital hand
to swearing off his trials, too, when the
lid are foreign witnesses against him, or
to chance of making something by della
a He doesn', subscribe 10 the doctrine d
he these are dangerous--on the contra
they are the north star Of safety. He {
e's draw up the affidavit Of rostPoncment