Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-30

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that is an old story we already know
that. Every time a young girl is accused
of anything, it is always the mans fault. !"
His laughing and sneering was horrible to
listen to- He attacked her virtue in the
most icentious manner, though nothing
could be proved against her conduct as a
woman, and he constantly attracted the
attention of the jury to facts he thought
might be to the young girls disadvantage.
felt like going up to him and strangling
him then and there, and longed for the
day to arrive when he in turn might be
judged by women, and hoped, for Justices
sake, the women would not spare him. At
ter listening to the speech of the defend
ants lawyer I left, without hearing if the
young girl was condemned by the
jury. hoped to learn that by reading the
list of COMBINATIONS printed and pasted
ON the walls; but it seems they are not
printed until a year after the verdict is
rendered, otherwise would have remained
until the last, for the young girl interested
me very much. In this case one Judge
only was the mouthpiece for the three 9TH
ers, one of whom seemed buried in thought
and Indifferent to all around him, another
slept soundly during the whole time, and
the third seemed so deep buried in his ring
lets that he was unaffected by anything he
heard. After leaving this room | wandered
into another where
PETTY STEALING,
Was tried. A man with one arm was on
the bench, accused of stealing from store,
among goods on the side walls, second
hand stand for holding bottles, not worth
more than forty or sixty sous. The
amount of Importance given by the Judges
to insignificant objects was really astonish-
ing. 1t was first supposed that the stand
was basket, and half hour was passed
in finding out whether it was round
basket, square basket or a top-covered
basket. At last it was discovered that it
was not a basket at all. The questions
were all asked in a pompous manner, and
with a seriousness it would seem the i'm
portant questions alone could call forth.
After much discussion had taken place as
to the size and form of the
basket, the Procureur de la Re.
publique consulted his papers, and after
fumbllng and fumbling discovered that the
basket was wire stand. The principal
witness in the case was little boy of
nine years of age, apprenticed to a
patissier he came forward in his white
apron and white cap in his hand and
looked very cunning as he stood between
the two rails at the witness stand. He it
was saw the maRchot steal the wine stand,
aud on informing the storekeeper was the
means of having him arrested, and he
looked as pleased as a basket of chips and
seemed as proud as though he had accom-
plished most heroic act. As a witness
he was paid three francs, which must have
been little fortune to him, and doubtless
he will hereafter spend his leisure hours in
watching the street corners, so as to be
able to arrest another thief. After the
witnesses had been heard and all the par
ticulars learned, the judges rose from their
seats, and stepping back some distance on
the platform, consulted some moments to-
gether. In this case there were three
Judges, and, as in the other room, one only
did all the talking. On returning to their
seats the Judge sentenced the poor md1chot
| to
FOUR MONTHS IMPRISONMENT.
Had it been in the winter time the poor
cripple would have been quite contented,
for Imprisonment was for him certainty
of warmth and food things he did not
always enjoy, for he daily begged at the
church door of st. German FAuxerrois.
By his side during the trial sat a young
woman with baby in her arms, which
baby, i'll spite of huge piece of bread
which it constantly thrust to its mouth,
! Tod ocCfI aI
| the Judge and lawyers, much to the an
noyance of these last, who were young
men, and expressed on their countenances
as much horror of the little innocent as is
ascribed to old maids. The woman was
tried for harboring the wine stand in the
house. As usual, the moral conduct OF
the prisoners was dwelt upon with keen
relish by the Judge, and it must be said,
to the shame Of the one-armed man. that
he did not present an interesting example
of virtue. The woman had employed a
lawyer to defend her, which he did with
all the eloquence of appraised hands and
flowing sleeves of his black silk gown.
! Although not young, he was inexperienced,
and am not sure but that be went back
in the past even beyond the deluge before
coming to the point. He pitched his voice
on high and loud key, which had the
effect of making the Judges stare and the
whole room litter. The woman was ac-
quilted, much to the qualification of the
baby.
THE NEXT PRISONER
Called was young girl Of seven years Of
age dressed in black, with black wooden
lace over her head She was of very dark
complexion she kept her eyes bent down
during the entire trial and never once
offered a word in defense as is often the
custom. On her arrival stepped into the
| hall for breath of fresh air, for in France
ventilation is unknown, and l arrived In
| time to hear her condemned to SIX months
imprisonment for stealing pair of sheets.
g How !" | exclaimed aloud to myself, sis
it possible one could have so little heart as
to denounce so young creature for so
trifng crime?" a little short fat woman
! by my side turned savagely upon me. "But
she didn't say the sheets had cost fifty
francs a piece, and this in a manner so
loud that all eyes turned upon me.
turned away heart. sick and felt that had
scarce found justice lodged in the Palais
de Justice. As passed through the hall,
young lawyer coming from the same
room was stopped by confrere. How
much did the young girl get ?" he asked.
"Six months I" ''Six months C'est
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CONGRESS OF EDUCATION. The three
Particles of faith of Continental Liberalism
free, compulsory. gratuitous education
were unanimously accepted by the recent
| Congress of Education held at Brussels.
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