The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-08-07
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On thf 9th 81 April 1919 tic court
house I'll Ci8lhslilie. Texas. Was crowd
"a to ogrltowng An exciting case
was Is BE tried George Hopkins. a
wealthy planter had offered q gross ia-
sult Is Mary Ellison. the Young and
beautiful wife Of his oyersecr. The
husband threatened to chaa,iso him Cor
the outrage. when Hopkins went to
Ellisons house and shot hum at his own
door The murderer was bailed 10
answer the charge. This occurrence
produced q great excitement. and Hop
kns, il order 70 turn the tide Of popu-
lar indignation, had circulated reports
against her character. aud She had sued
linn for SANDER Both suits were
pending for murder and slauder.
The interest became deeper when it
became known thut Pike and Ashley
of Arkansas, and S. S. Prentss Of New
Orleans, by enormous fees, had been
detained 10 defend Hopkins.
Hopkins was acquitted The Texas
lawyers were overwhelmed by their OPP
ponents Il was the fight Of dwarf
against giant
The slandCr case was for the Gth, and
the tiFong 81 spectators grew IN NUM-
bers rs well as excitement, ms money
had procured witness VINO served nis
powerful sagacae When tine s.aud-
ease H ea ya, H5 llssou ,,as
ieit ~tho4. A aty9iae. au uau "Ilu-
drawn
"haye y5u Los couAseil' inquired
Judge Allls,iooA.n5 kindly at the plain
tlil.
NO, sir they have al deserted me.
and am too poor 70 employ any more
replied the beautiful Mary, bursting IN
TO tears.
"In such ease, will not some chiyal-
rous member Of the profession yolun-
teer said the Judge, glancing round
the bar
The thirty lawyers were silent.
i viii your honor said u voice
from the thickest part Of the crowd, bo-
hind the bar,
st the sound of that voice many
startcd-t was unearthly, sweet and
mohrnful
TIE first sensation was changed into
laughter, when a tan, gaunt, spectral
figure elbowed his way through the
crowd. and placed himself within the
bar His clothes looked SO oshabby that
the court hcsitatcd to let the case pro-
ceed through his management.
Has yoUr name been entered on
the rolls Of the Stato?" asked the
Judge.
1T is immatcrial, answered the
stranges his thin bloodess lips curling
with 4 sneer, Here is my license from
the highest tribunal Of America p and
be handed the JUDGE a broad parch-
ment The trial went on.
He allowed the witnesses to toll
their story and tho defense to lead OF.
Ashley spoke FIRST, followed by Pike
and Irentiss. The latter brought the
house down in cheers, in which the jury
joined
1t was now the strangers turn; be
rises before the bar, not behind it.
and SO near the wondering jury that lie
might touch the foreman with his lone,
bony fingers. He proceeded to tear to
pieces the arguments Of Ashley, which
melted away at his touch like frost be-
fore a sunbeam; every one looked sur
prisod Anon he came to the dazzling
wit of tho poet-lawyer, Pike Then the
curl Of has lip grew sharper, his smooth
face began to kindle, and his eyes to
open, dim and dre0ry no longer, but
vivid as Lightning, red as re-giobes and
giriug as twin-meteors The whole
soal III the eye, the fUlll heart streancd
ont 81 his face Then without bestow-
ing an aliusion 70 PIentiss, he turned
short around on The peIJured witnesses
of Hopkins, tore their testimony into
saIels, uud hurlad into taeE faces sach
toErb.e meeAca thai asl tlomDie4
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D-, tAel li was q gl4gn b9th glorious
aai dreadful to behold tbe orator. Iiis
et aua baemuc as imp nous as ihe
motions u vac oa.. Ia q hurricane Il
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.Ac slstet cadenee. lis forehead
lowed hee heated furnace, his eoun-
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