The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-12-27

sitting on Jury.
VIVA: tiresome, tedious, detecting, aggrava-
ting, bcwdcring work 1t must be to sit upon a
jury. How the knotty, snarly, gnarly intrcacies
of law and the entanglcd maze of conflicting
testimony must confuse one! There is your
oath, to render justice in the case of Brown VS..
Smith, fairly and impartially, so help YOU
Moses" And how are you to unrddle this per-
picking conGomeration of facts, doubts, suppo-
siton of facts, doubts, guess-work and prejudice?
Even to recognize justice when you find it, is
sometimes 4 difficult job, She gets so banged
about-does that poor blind fcmale-among err
ror, knavery, cheating, lying and other nasty
jades that surround her-she becomes smutty
with bad associations that YOU cannot tell her
from her companions, and we doubt if she can
herself. The heather who invented mythology
represent justice as blind with pair Of scales
to Indicate even handed justice. That she is
blind is certain, and deaf and dumb too. The
scales she bears are only those in her eyes Such
a thing as exact justice is beyond the power of
man 30 render. II is a fact that no two jures
ever could, would or did, may, can, must, shall
or will see the same set of facts in the same
light, or find the same verdict.
We were brought to these reflections on spend
| ing few moments recently in jury room ut
the Court House, and reading upon the wall the
record left IN pencil by various despondcnt jury
men at different times.
| For the benefit Of ladies who are craving for
mems rights, one of which is to sit upon jury,
but which wrctched fate they are excused from
by reason Of their sex, and for the informa =
ton of mothers and all others who are
not obliged TO be pcnncd up in 1y9 room,
without food or sleep, and no frcsher air
than such as is generated in close room by
| twelve men, most Of whom have dirty socks, and
brcaths reeking with tobacco and perhaps some
of them the nauseating flavor of an old drunk,
we give such as we dare of the handwrtings
upon the wall" as seen on Monday evening last.
As all kinds of men are required to make a
world, SO various sorts of the genus homo must
constitute jury. Some men are tall and others
Short some are lean and others fat; some are
pious and Others are sinners; some like prayers,
and more good dinners. So we found iuryman
whose work on the wall was six feet six inches
from the floor. \ sentimental party writes in a
bold scrawl, high upon the wall, this jargon:
ave fain would end this useless strife,
Our active brains with pleasure rife;
But each insists his own is right,
And stuubornly maintains the fight"
Some other Juror, tired Of trying to get YER
diet, writes below:
"But each insists his own is best
And puts agreeing quite at rest
Another cynical individual adds below all:
"But Oh! how foolish and how true,
Too much big and little nv
A wrathy juror scribblcs;
Cant agree-not by dam sightm
Another, equally positive, but less profane, and
one who is perhaps used to measuring quantity
by the quart, &c, writes:
"This jury don't agree by a jug fun"
A statistical juror leaves upon the wall the
record in the celebrated Sanford vs.. Gormly case:
July Is, 1872, at IL NJ no agreement
g " s : do do
5 Bully! We've done it
at last. Good! llunky!
Some loyc-lorn cuss toner leaves upon the
surface of the plaster this evidence of his deep
cuteness as II concocter of puzzles and a com
FOUNDER Of cnigmas;
"shc not would not me let her pretty kiss lips
W. Should advise t,o, follow 70 sool his ,ood
Another victim ~ ,no ;nrv svstom wrote.
0,yom o,ron IN - short timon
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ao.o,,,,i,,o1 ro1,o,, sorot,hos.
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.dov" Nnother adds. and nirht. too"
agree to disagree"
some 'clIo" WHO h"u Eo'Seu "ln'e' WIN
picked capo"Ge, ana o'heF Town H'Ih' h"u
been tOrmCnted in his drOWsy moments with