Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-07

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The Volunteer Counsel. E8sH
There is a pathos, magnetic inter
his outburst of nature, that ire
sclnates every reader. AS
reduction it equals William
\ rated description of the
cher. "-ED1ToR.
Ia, Tor was licensed, when a
20, / of twenty-one, to practice at the
bar. He was poor, but well educated,
and possessed extraordinary genius.
He married beauty, who afterwards
deserted him for another. ~.
( On the 9th of April, 1910, the court
house in GAINESVILLE, Texas, was
crowded to overlooking. An exciting
case was to be tried. George Hop
kins, wealthy planter, had offered
gross insult to Mary Ellison, the young
and beautiful wife of his overseer. The
husband threatened to chastise him for
the outrage, when Hopkins went to
Ellison's house and shot him in his
own door. The murderer was ar
rested, and basled to answer the charge
This occurrence produced great ex-
element, and Hopkins, in order to
turn the tide of popular Indignation.
had circulated reports against her
character, and she had sued him for
SANDER. Both suits were pending
Tor murder and SANDER.
The interest became deeper, when it
was known that Ashley and Pike, of
Arkansas, and S. S. Prentiss, of New
Orleans, by enormous fees, had been
retained to defe i'd Hopkins.
Hopkins was acquitted. The Texas
lawyers we're overwhelmed by their
opponents. It was fight Of a dwarf
against giants,
The SANDER suit was for the 9th, and
the throng of spectators grew in num-
bers. as In excitement. Public opinion
was setting in for Hopkins his money
had procured Witnesses who served his
powerful advocates. When the SANDER
case was called, Mary Ellison was left
without an attorney-all had with
drawn.
HHave you no counsel?" inquired
Judge Mills, looking kindly on the
plaintiff ...- .....
''No, sir; they have all deserted me,
and [ am too poor to employ any more, !"
replied the beautiful Mary, bursting
into tears
'In such case, will not some chiv-
alrous member of the profession volun-
teer 2" said the judge, glancing around
the bar.
The thirty lawyers were silent.
will, your honor" said voice
from the thlckest part of the crowd
behind the bar.
At the sound of the voice many start
edit was SO unearthly, sweet, and
mournful. .z -...-
The first sensation was changed into
laughter when tall, gaunt, spectral
figure elbowed his way throug h the
crowd, and placed himself within the
bar. His clothes looked so shabby
that the court hesitated to let the case
proceed under his management.
'Has your name been entered on
the rolls of the State 2" demanded the
judge.
'eIt is immaterial," answered the
stranger, his thin, bloodless lips curl
ing up with a sheer. @*Here is my
license from the highest tribunal in
America - and he handed the Judge
broad parchment.
The trial went on. ".
He suffered the witnesses to tell their
own story, and he allowed the defense
to lead off. Ashley spoke first, fol-
lowed by Pike and Prentiss. The lat
ter brought the house down in cheers,
In which the jury joined.
1t is now the strangers turn. He
rose before the bar, not behind it, and
SO near the wondering july that he
might touch the foreman with his long,
bony finger. 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
surprised. Anon he came to the daz-
zling wit of the poet lawyer, Pike.
Then the curl on his lip grew sharper,
his smooth face began to kindle up,
and his eyes to open dim and dreary
no longer, but vivid as lightning. red
as fre-globes, and glazing as twin mete-
ors. The whole soul was in his eye:
the full heart streamed out of his face.
Then, without bestowing an allusion
to Prentlss, he turned short around on
the perjured witnesses of Hopkins, tore
their testimony into threads, and
hurled in their faces such terrible in
vectives, that all trembled like aspens.
and two of them fed from the court
house. The excitement of the crowd
was becoming tremendous. Their
united life and soul seemed to hang
upon the burning tongue of a stranger,
and he inspired them with the power
OF his passions. He seemed to have
stolen natures long-hidden secret of
attraction. But his greatest triumph
was to come.
His eyes began to glance at the as
sassin Hopkins, as his lean, taper fin
gers assumed the same direction. He
hemmed the wretch within a wall of
strong evidence and impregnable argu-
ment, cutting off all hope of escape.
He dug beneath the murderer's feet
bitches of dllemmas, and held up the
slanderer to the scorn and contempt of
the populace. Having thus girt him