Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-25
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

in her nest, could not be more astonished at The
lack of chickens than is our good hen, whom We
call justice, with the result of the three bigges
eggs lately found apparently ready for incuba
ton.
As to the egg, marked "Stokes and Fisk
there is doubt whether it is an egg at all. 4
is claimed that it is a bit of chalk, rounded anC
polished to look like an egg, and placed in The
nest by an Old rooster, named grand Jury,
| quite incapable Of laying an egg. If the inyes
tigation should show that grand jury was 8
hen, and the egg be replaced in the legal nest
for further incubation, imagine that it will be
too far gone to admit of Matching.
The great "Jumel" egg, after having been sat
on for two months, has turned out added. That
is, the eleven jurors who it was finally agreed
should try the case, could not concnr
in a verdict. 1t appears that they
were as nearly equally divided as
could be. / do not wonder at it; for
from reading over the evidence | am convinced
| that the larger the number of the jury the more
likelihood would there be Of an equal di-
vision. 1t was case in which no man could be
qualified to render verdict unless he had given
months OF careful study to the evidence; for
| statements nositivelv sworn to on one side were
as positively conuadicted upon oath by the
other. II | had been a Juror in this case, no
matter on which side my own judgment was, [
sbould have been clad that some of nv asso-
eiates had come 10 a contrary one so that
sbould he relieved from the necessity of render
inc formal verdict. OF one thing in conuec.
ron with this ease am heartily cIad IT has
been more than minated that tbe father of the
MIR. George Washington Bowen. who claimed to
he the illeuitimate son of Betsev Bowen. after
wards known as Madame Jumel, was no other
than C,eoroe washington To saw nothing of
| tho inherent ;nnrohab;Iitv or tbis dates showed
conrlusiyply that This could not be the case
Washington | believe was dead before this
Bowen was born.
The case of Mayor Hall has come to a CON
clusion, in which tragedy and farce are strange.
" mingled. As have before written. one of
the Jurors was taken ill., The illness proved
mortal. The question then came up what was
to be done. Both sides protested 10 be ready TO
20 on before the Jury as it was, or with another
member properly added to their number, The
question was as to the legality OF the court, 1t
was a special session of the court of common
pleas ordered for this ease, If was arrued that
by the death of the Juror the iurv was
dissolved, and thereby this special term
came to an end. Tn the meantime
the regular session of the court, pre-
sided over by the recorder. had opened, and it
was argued thatby law there could be only one
session of tbe court Mt tba same fine Variops
expedients were suggested for uettiuo over tbis
difficulty. The points were so nice that .Jndge
| DAILY took some DAYS to look into the matter
promising TO rive his decision on Sltnrdav In
the meantime tbe recorder had taken thc matter
into his own hands. In another case he ruled
that the court over which he presided was tbe
only regular one and thar anv furtbcr action bv
Judre Daly would he illepaI. So on Thursday
Jndge Dalv announced that he sbould abandon
further action. That his view of the ease differ
ed from that Of Recorder Hackett is more than
implied. for he saws of sbould decide other
wise, the unseemly spectacle would be presented
of a conflict of jurisdiction between fine reuul,r
iudre Of the court and a iudae here temnorori.
| w." The upsbot is tbat tbe inrv were dis
| charped and all the nroceedinqs Of sivtaen d,v,
90 for nothinq supoose that this abortive M
tempt at Il trial has cost the civ fully s5o ooo
and the defence nearly as much more to 81,
nothing of the loss of time Incurred nv iuror
| and Witnesses Ills bnt fair TO saw that fins IA
nothing has been deveIoped in any way impli
| eating the MAYOR in any of the frauds What
| ever may be the truth in the matter this part o
| the case was not reached.
Meanwhile now find myself in possession Of
pleasant document bearing the signature oil
the commissioner OF Jurors. By this l am mott
led to attend as Juror at the ensuing term OF
the superior court. The document contains a
fearful list OF warnings; the purport OF which Is
that any person trying to eyade jury duty
Is liable to fine and imprisonment | AN
also informed that any juror in certain courts
will be paid two dollars for each day of actual
attendance in court; in all other courts he will
receive for leach case in which he is empanneled
one dollar if the case be tried, and fifty cents if
default be made" Judging from past expert
ence, shall be empanneled in three cases; and
shall receive at most three dollars for my
months labor. | shall indeed have, reut-free
the use Of seat in our court house, which, as il
now appears, has, in its uufnishedSstate cost
about fourteen millions Of dollars: and can gaze
at will upon the wonderful plastering of Garvey
and sit in a cane-bottOmed chair for which In
gersoll has been paid about hundred dollars
a fair market price therefor being about three
dollars.
PerbSns bottor i5ea of tbe absrrIitv y,bicl
has oraduaIIv c,ert into our laws cannon h,
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