National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-04-12
LEGAL COURTESIES.
Another Chapter in the Raymond
Hill Case.
washlngton's Portia Before Justice Cox
An Interested Crowd of Spectators
MIR. Merriok Appears by Proxy
The Lady Rises to n Question
of Privilege Compliments
to MIR. Morrick,
A Loading Attorney overhnnlod.

Ben Hill, of Georgia, OH tho charge Of scduc.
ton, occupied the attention of Jus tioe Cox
for short time in Circuit court, Di.
vision No. 2. Last Wednesday Mr.. Il. 4. Mer-
rick, the counsel for the defendant, ia tho alb.
sonce of the counsel on tho other side, with.
out giving any notice Of his intended action
moved TO strike the case from tho docket, and
at the time took occasion to press severe strio.
lures upon the action of the plaintiff aud her
purported attorney, pronouncing the whole
thing conspiracy aud Matchmaking business.
His Honor ovcrruled the motion and prom.
ised to accord Mrs. Lockwood hearing on
Saturday. She came into the court on that
morning aud expecting a lively time, the
chamber was crowded with attorneys and
spectators. Her first step was to ask for iudg.
mont on the ground that the defendant had
failed to enter any plea in tho case.
Mr.. Bon Davenport, who appears with BIr.
Merrck, had on chat morning filed demur.
rer to the bill as bad in substance and i'm.
brought, and rising, said MAY
1t please the court"
Mrs. Lockwood You are not In this case.
Mr.. Davenport-That makes no difference
to you; but am.
Mrs. Lockwood-You are not of record.
Mr.. Davcnport-I only wish to say that /
protest against her speaking unless it is to
the motion.
Mrs. LOCKWOOD have a right To be heard
in my own vindiCation.
His Honor-Well, Mrs. Lockwood, if you
eau conclude in five minutes you can pro-
coed.
Mrs. Lockwood then proceeded, and spoke
as follows:
IF Your Honor please, for the first time in
the seven years of my practice before this
court, rise to a question of privilege, |
come to ask leave to defend myself against the
foul aspersons cast upon me on Wednesday in
your presence and in my absence, and IN the
presence of those gentlemen by hitherto hon
ored member of this bar. | refer to the mo-
ton made to strike from the docket of this
court the suit Of Raymond vs. Hill, No. 81 $50
"A suit in which no peadngs have ever been
filed, 10 replication or issue Joined, and which
has never been calCudarod--a suit, Your
Honor, in which there has never been an at.
toney Of record for tho defense, until the
very moment when this learned and honorable
attorney comes into court, and with the sub
blime simplicity of n child asks Your Honor
TO dismess n suit In which, even yet, lie has
no part or lot lie comes in here without no.
tice to tho attorney Of record, tells Your
Honor he does not deem her worthy of notice
The may hereafter), declines to give her no.
tcc, and then, like brave and valiant knight,
proceeds not only to trG1uce her behind her
back, but to state things, without substantial
ton, that are unmitigatedly and unqua!ifedly
false.
This learned attorney states that he makes
this motion because l have filed this cause
without the authority of my client while he
holds IN his hands the papers Endorsed by her
signature, which he claims to know, and at.
tested by her solemn OATH but he neglects to
tell, or to show, TO the court by what authority
he comes, for neither plea, nor answer, nor de-
murrer, nor power of attorney, signed by his
client, attest his authority in this case. lie
claims TO be the expouuder of law but ignores
its plalnest prccepts; an honored member of
the bar but forgets his honor when he deals
with q woman. And this is not the first in
stance on the records of this court in which
this attorney has been guilty of unprofessonnl
conduct. Ho tells this court, in my absence,
(he dared not repeat it in my presence) that
he has several GgidGriis in his possession bear
ing upon the general matter out of which this
case grows, but that rs they do not directly
affect the merits of the question as to the et.
torncy's authority from the plaintiff to insti-
tutc it, he does not deem it necessary to hle
them in support of this his unprecedented
notion Your Honor, ten thousand ailidavits
like tho one tho man Small filed here.
in, guilty of subornaton of perjury, as
shown, would have as little effect upon
the status OF this case as the opinion of con e.
demned man on the statute under which ho
is sentenced. lie says that there may be oc.
| casiOn hereafter to bring them forward, init
mating that he now holds them IN te,vorun
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