The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-31
LETTER FROM TYLER.
MIDDLEBOURNE, TYLER Co,
IA W Ann 40 lA-h
Editors OF the Register.

MlDDLEBoURNE TYLER 20,
W Va, Aug. %, 1875. !
Editors OF the Register.
Your lackey-boy made depression to-
day, landing in this inland metropolis
during the session of that dispenser Of
dignity and Justice, the County Court.
Well, my eyes were open, my ears lis.
tenng and tongue inquiring, and with
al, sooa learned that the glorious
American jury were out on the ever
lasting "Keener and Bertrand case again.
This is the remarkable case Of Tyler. 1t
seems that some years ago a horse OF
keeuer'S the land ord toraged on the
crops of Bertrand, the tenant. and sundry
bouts of bubylsh querreling resulted be-
tween said landlord and the wife OF said
tenant, who was the wearer OF the trous-
ers in said tenants establishment. FL
nally said madam tenant took said horse
out of the corn and put him In the stable.
Landlord came Tor his horse-madam
resisted his removal-landlord insisted
mHIam PERSISTED, anda scuiiie existed
before the Interesting coupe desisted.
Madam punched the landlord IN the
stsu.0.ick-landlord pulled madam 5 hair.
This was all. and the landlord had
madam indicted for assault and battery,
and the proof was, that he assaulted her
~ TO her hair, aud she battered him as TO
his st,mnick. Well, the jury hung. 1t
went over to next term. Was tried
again; jury hung again. 1t went over
again till next court, and now the inter-
estiug evidence from train Of valuable
witnesses, the brilliant pleudings, and
diyniticd charge to tie jury, are all gone
over to the supreme disgust of the sem
sible people OF the county but here
comes the distinguished jury No. 3 of
the notorious Bertrand case who have
been out two days in travail, struggling
with the law and the facts 10 bring forth
Justice Clerk calls the roll. "Gentlc-
men have YOU agreed on ycrdict?'
/ NO. sir. We cant agree-wc hang.
= . hang il! was the mental ejaculation
| Of everybody. You ought 10 hang,
/ every one OF YOU, for hanging on such u
| contemplate case. The case has be-
/ come chronic and desperate having cost
| the county hundreds of dollars, and the
TAXPAYER. are getting intolerably annoy
( ell and puzzled with this thing of three
separate jurics of twelve men each-thIr-
! ty.six picked and chosen citizens, beng
unable 10 decide whether II woman has II
right to punch man in the S''"m'cE
and he right 10 pull sad St"m"I Il
p,lnchcr's huIr. Now, if | was a jury OF
twelve picked men, ! wouldn't
hang minute Oh such hanged case.
I'll b. hanged if | would. ! would
decide at once, that any man that Will
let woman punch his st,0mick ought
to have 1t punched, and that any woman
that will punch mans m2oRt,k u hit
To have her hair pulled, and my verdict
would hc uncquivocal and sweeping
boM jp>iifD5ly gaity-penrlty to b"
locked in Jail together ill they could
nestle ~ ailectionatrly u two kittens.
Now submit in all gravity, that ii is
a ridiculous shame t. allow petty baby
gucrrrl> between biz children u be
brought from the nursery into court TO
draw from their own poverty, their
needed substance in the matter Of cost
and expense. and, more than all, waste
. the time and money of the people, sim
ply to CRAFTY personnel spite, with no
possible good to come Of it, either TO the
I individual or to the State. But then it,
/ i.n fer tho lawyers. BY the way,
lno,. It. K,tcLem and |. Skincm'
FELLOW. have good int fees hcrenbouts.
T,nao,br docket fees in twcnty-dollsr
suits. and so on. How's that for til"
debtor? I'll respect IN honest lawyer if
anybody II bring me one; but those
pirEayunr, job-huuting fee hunting sort
/ Ike thr,n about Us well a do II tur-
kew buzHnrd. y man might as well ho
a carcass Tor one ~, victim Tor the other.
Bat then the courts will go on ar
r,G,nug and bringing to the shamb.rs,
and agycr. Coon lilcering in spite o. ne,
and il Hnyyt' let EN-.
Here, for country with justice with
outs courts and law without lawyers.
SALNTHIEL.