Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-01-26
SELECTED STORY.
A mixed Jury or, Life in Old Kentucky

ing of one John Brown, BY one Amos
Devilsa,cher. The case excited a great
deal Of interes, with the public, and con-
sequently much feeling was enlisted in It.
Now about the same time anoth-r case Of
peculiarly intense interest was up before
the court, in the same court house; ii was
a financial case; In which j. Baroer was
indicted for a conspiracy with intent 10
SHAVE certain business men Of the COM
munity, out of an honest acquired cash.
The luries IN each case being sworn IN,
the business Of the two respective courts
proceeded. After much litigation, ques-
tioning and crossquestioning, testimony
and rebutting testimony, the cases were
summed up, the jurors charged by the
Judge and sent out to deliberate according
TO law and facts.
The murder case was rather a plain
one, but Conscientious scruples On the
part OF the g twelve men good and true"
and doubts on the part Of others, with a
logged determination on the part of two
old and rather wolfish jurors, kept the
PANEL hung off and on, for eight and
forty hours. Now things were no less
slowly working In the other case. The
the Jury room in which the financial case
was being deliberated upon, was immedi-
ately over that of the murder case, the
one in the third story and the other in
the second Of The building.
Tired out, monStrous dry, and weary
of the mono,ony OF the thing, one Of The
financial jurors managed % telegraph
somebody on the rear ground side of the
court house, and soon a communication
took place between those within and those
without said jury room
What the IS upz" quoth one of
the murder case jurors, as he sees a long
string OF variegated hues, dangling down
before the partially grated window.
30 he = said mother, going to raise
the liquor
Not 50 bad" said another awfuIly dry
juror, :" IS that other jury out o.
They are overhead suppose We no
tify them we're on hand for drink, or a
game of euchre2'' says Tho forman. The
jury soon agreed on that point, and just
Their the variegated string which as COM
posed Of sundry necl, and poke: hand
kerchiefs of the upper jury began TO as
cend.
jug Of whiskey. by snakes = said
one.
"Raise the window, and snatch il in =
adds another.
Here she comes y
"Take care, you will be out of the
window, major -
Hold my coat tail, captain, IL snake
her, says the major, and leaning well
out he grabs the jug. Those pulling il
up, gave the kno:ted line jerk, that near.
ly took the major out of his boots, but he
held on to the jug, Ike grim death to q
deceased culled Pusson. The lower were
on the eve OF giving " three cheers" for
the triumph of strategy over art, wher
the foreman brought them 10 order by
Hish-h-h-h. the sheriff 5 at the door,
. Gentlemen, have you made out vel
diet %
No, verdict says the jurors
How long are you a going TO hang
out, darn You, anyhow g Here YOU re
been out since Friday morning; here.
Saturday night. DeviIcatcher wants you
to let him know whether he's got to be
hung or 60 home tomorrow. I'll starve
you on. if you don't come down soon, >
says the sheriff.
Come IN the morning, sheriff" SAYS
the foreman, .. we'll settle the prisoner
hash tonight, sure =
The sheriff now visited the other Jury.
whom he found rather dry, and cross as
hornets, bat with no verdict After graf
flying them with the intelligence that un-
less they made up 4 verdict b. next NOR
ming, he should be under the necessity
of starving them out, he left.
Let Us so up stairs among The fnan-
ciers and see how they are getting along.
"Too he'd" says one, too bad. :
" there's that thunderin' villain Devil
catcher, confined IN that room below Us,
and he and the sheriff have nabbed our
whiskey."
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