Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-01-29
PANT" REPORTS A TRIAL.
THE CRUSHING AVALANCHE OF SLANG THAT
STRUCK "OLD KIT"-HK TURNS LOOSE
ON kUATIC Jury
ON A RUSTIC JURY.

court.scene in my last letter to prove the ina
bility of q woman to cut hair, and will now
gather in the slack of my story. The first
witness called was miner, formerly runner
for sailor boarding house in Frisco, and one
of the bhoys
Gen. Kittrell asked, "Do you know the
prisonerl"
Your just shoutn do, and thorough
bred he is, Cap. no egg sucker about that
rooster, you hear my blazoo.
| 81 have no desire to hear about your bla-
zoo, Sir! l merely wish you to answer my
questions directly and to the point. Again
ask, DO yon k,.oU the p,Isonerl''
"Know himl Why cert Know him since
he was knee high to a duck, and it gives me
the jams when he chins me now.
"Gives you the jams when he chins? l do
not understand you exactly. Please confine
yourself to the question. What do you mean
by jam.l'
Why, he makes me tired; giving me a
jam of queer wind when l am chinning him.
He is cracked in the cabiza. Don't you get On
| to it nowl'
Kittrell thought possibly he could, but while
| laboring in darkness as to what he should get
on, the Judge, (who had formerly been an able
police magistrate in San Franciseo), quit eat
ing pine nuts, and turning to the witness said;
See here, Gully, you must shoot your slang,
and give the lawyer the true business; no
mouth music, but the clean racket. Sabe?'
The witness means, continued the Judge, turn
ing to Kittrell and picking his teeth with the
Clerks gold pen. "that when he talks with the
prisoner, it makes him sad to see that his
friend is a little of. That is to say, shaky in
| the gills-I mean-ah! | mean-loony-ah!I
should say, insane. Eowyou sa5e, don't your
Kittrell said he thought he did, but was in
terrupted from further light by the witness,
who thankfully locked at the Judge for his e1-
PLANTATION, and said, '' that's 1t, Gineral, much
obliged to ye Judge. You see, Cap, the prs-
ener is all broke up. and"
"All broke upT said Klttrell in amazement,
Why, did the man fall?
Fall! No. That roostes fall dowHl Oh,
NO, nary time. Hes no Nevada Assembly
man, ! mean that he is all used up; been in
Jail so long that he is crazy nor bed bug in
a stone house"
"Oh! see. Now I understand you per
fectly. You are cognizant then, of the fact
that this poor unfortunate man, your friend
and almost inseparsSle companion, is subject
to fits of melancholy and alteration of mind,
h. I'll
on's CELL into which the effslgent light of
heaven never casts a ray of sympathy er-"
Pail the bell, signal spot passed into the
sheaves; jump off the cage Whoopla! shoot |
it to me some more. 40 miles from home and |
no snow. Take in the slack of your jam, Gin
eral, and give it to me in smaller doses. l
don't tumble to yer paava. l no sabe. You
heap tampecc.
At the word "tampoco," the General tum-
bled so to speak; for with his official assoeia-
tions with Mexican ladies in Bodie, he has
learned what tampoco means. And drawing
himself up to his full height, he looked sternly
1t the witness, and with military gesture
silence, and no further Interrupt
ioH, aua w ausHor VAC qocsIlOus promptly. |
Now, Sir, wish You to state to the court
md jury, all that passed between you and
he prisoner when you last engaged in CONVEX
alton with him, ver5attm ct ttte1utin; for, |
rom your volumineas testimony L wish to
'ase nv argument upon che Hypothesis that
he prisoner is non compus mentis, and labor .
ng under an hallucination which"
Here the witness jumped to his feet, and .
sllsd eat, "Free bus to the What Cheer
louise. Caron on the red and pocket your
ne. Keno for number six. Copper the ace
nd play to cases. Split On tho turn and
lteh the pot dead to rights. A % gait on the
ONO stretch, and no money to hedge out
bake, Gineral, pu. 'er there, old fell Your
taksr fren the Comstock, and don't you for
1T it. Just hit the jury one moro lick like
lat, and you call the turn you are dead on it
v a sublime fact. Amt he daisy, Judge7"
"Silencs SIR yelled the Court, as his half
,e~ea pine nuts whizzed through broken =
olar, spla.tering on the Sheriff and jury like
I'd shot. Silence Sir fine you $50 for con-
mpt Of court. Take your seat Sir. and the
,srly ehoked Judge ordered recess for 20
inutes, and all hands iqusred did not re- "
rn to hear the rest of the argument until 9,
ar the end, but just in time to hear Kit
oil make splendid speech to the Jury, dur