The daily gazette., 1879-09-22

GIVING TIE LAWYERS AWAY.
HOW A NAUGHTY LITTLE GRASS WI
DOW WENT BACK ON SOME QUAKER
CITY Lawyers. y

HOW A NAUGHTY LITTLE GRASS WI
CITY LAwYERs. y
From Taggart's Phila. Sunday Times.
Some. months ago . lady of Quaker
extraction, living in one of the adjoining
counties to Philadelphia, was divorced
from her husband, without her making
any opposition, the conditions being
that the husband should pay certain
sums of money us part of the settlement.
Tn s part of the agreement VI as not liv-
ed up to, and as the lady was not a
woman to BE- triflcd with, she recently
sought Lawyer John OByrne for ad-
vice.
She desired to have the decree of di-
vorce set aside, and gave Mr.. O'Byrne
all, the necessary information, but no
sasli, most essential requisite when a
client visits a lawyer. However, Mr..
O'Byrne, who is jolly, good-natured
man, undertook the case, and prepared
the necessary papers. In short tim
the lady called again, when O'Byrne
wes ry busy She d, maDded to have
her case attended 10 at once, and he iB-
sisted that she should call again. AT
this she began ,to use abusive language
and disparage the legal profession.
John was greatly shocked at Ibis, and
bundlipg together the papers he bad
prepar, d, gave them to her, bade her
find another lawyer, and take herself
away. She went.
The lady, with the papers Mr.. o.
Byrne had prepared in her possession
| Af Ia IuIuaS nd laid
her case before him. THE Judge took a
kindly interest in the matter, and on
last Monday the case came up in court
Seeing the woman had no counsel, ant
as she said Mr.. O'Byrne was thoroughly
convers mt with the facts. his Honor
called upon him to st tie tn IN TO the
| court. ..t..
This Mr.. O'Byrne commenced to do
when the lady contfadicted him as tt
some points, and told him he lad bettel
mind his own business. Upon this O'B
subsided, and the Cont asked the lad,
to give her version of the case. She gav'
an explanation ;'as is an explanation.
She soon set the whole courtroom in {
roar. She described how former cOun
ell Of bers,a brilliant young lawyer (wlI'
was present in the court al the time ,hat
criminal intercourse with her in his of
flee. Next 81 e charged that two othe
gOOd-lO, king and promising oung mem
btrs of the Bar had been guilty of th'
same indiscretion in their offices, an,
pointed them ont to the Court and spec
tators.
The sensation in court upon this dis
closure can be more easily imagined thai
desciilel. The Judge vigorous callet
out TO the woman to "stop! stop!" AM
then hid his head behind a newspaper L
conceal his bushes. Mr.. O'ByrLe,
very M dest man, was almost paralyze'
with astonishment, while the cheeks q
the "alleged'' guilty lawyers blushe
scarlet at the revelation.
The woman was summary silenced /
her damaging confessions, and peace an
order once more restored, but DOthin
except the facing finger Of Time can ev
er oblsterate the MOI al damage done b.
that woman's tongue upon the pure an
undetiled mind of the younger member
of the Bar. As to the old roostsrs, the.
seemed to like il, and their laughter wa
so loud and long thao il almost frighten
the spa rows in the square.
In justice to one OF the young limb
of the law against whom such serior
charge was made, a reporter of this pa
pei interviewed him, and he denied tn
truth of wa. the woman had asserted
He says she is woman of notoriousl
bad char actrr, and that he always too
the precaution when 81 e visited his ofiic
to have one of lis students present a
the interview, lest she should concot
some damaging story against him.