Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-19

size and heterogeneous population, must
necessarily afford extraordinary facilities
both for the concealment of criminals of
this class and for their escape in the event
of the place becoming too warm for them.
Charles Russell, who defended ODon.
nell, is in clover just now. Besides the
1000 guineas he got with his brief in that
case, he received $50 guineas each, about
the same time, in two other cases This
aggregates something like SIS, 900. a sugar.
plum such as is not often picked up for
two or three weeks work: and this does
not include refreshers. But lawyers fees
are climbing up here at an amazing rate
Three hundred guineas used to be consid.
cred the outside figure for the very best
man at the bar now the big-bugs
WOULD TURN Up THEIR NOSES
AT that sum. The other expenses con.
nected with litigation in England are equally
high. Justice may be had here, unques.
tionaLly, and it is not to be bought
Nevertheless, IN many cases it takes an
awful pile of money to secure it. A
stranger is struck with the small number of
divorce suits that come before the English
Courts, but he will make great mistake
fidelity is uncommon. The real reason is,
DIVORCES COME so HIGH
That none but the wealthy care aspire to
them. AprOpos Of this, I recall what
was perhaps one of the wittiest speeches
ever delivered from the English bench. A
poor man was convicted OF bigamy, and on
being asked why judgment should not be
passed upon him according to law, he re-
piled that his wife had eloped with a
hawker five years before, and be had never
seen her since, so last winter he had
thought it quite possible to marry again.
To this Mr.. Justice Maule replied as fol-
lows: " will tell you what you ought to
have done, and if you say you did not
know, must tell you the law conclusively
presumes you did. You ought to have in
structed your attorney to bring an action
against the hawker for criminal conversa.
ton with your wife. That would have
cost you about fl00 $780, When you
had recovered substantial damages against
the hawker, you could have instructed
your proctor to sue in the ecclesiastical
Courts for divorce mensd at que H0ro.
That would have cost you two or three
hundred pounds more. When you had OBJ
tanned divorce q menSd at que MOrO, you
would have had to appear by counsel be.
fore the House of Lords for a divorce a
riRcuJo mat,imoaH. The bill might have
been opposed in all is stages in both Houses
of Parliament, and although you would
have had to spend about one thousand or
twelve hundred pounds. You will proba
bly, tell me that you never had a thousand
iarthings of your own in the world but,
prisoner, that makes no difference Sitting
here as a British Judge, it is my duty to
tell you that this is not a country in which
there is one law for the rich and another
Tor the poor" To mark his eense of the
NERVOUSNESS OF THE CRIME,
The learned Justice sentenced the ecOromi.
,al prisoner to imprisonment for the term of
me day This was come years ago. The
process of getting divorced is little more
simple now and a little less costly. Even
ret, however, none venture to sue for this
privilege but those having a long purse
md probably the fact t6at nearly all the
divorces that are sought concern people in
nigh life, is the reason why superficial
observers rush to the mistaken conclusion !
hat there is more immortality amongst this |
lass than amongst the poor. Speaking Of |
oUrts of justice, that was rich scene |
,ver in ireland the other day. Several |
men had been on trisl for week charged |
With conspiracy to murder. The jury had |
lot been out long before it became evident |
hat something was troU bling them, and |
hat no verdict could be reached. The |
)rown Attorney and his assjs tant, Mr..
)'Brien, got wind Of the difficulty, and |
ranted Judge Johnson to give The Jury !
nen farther instruc ions. The
HITCH WAS UPON THE POINT
hat the evidence of Coleman, one of the
illnesses for the prosecution, upon whose
the case depended, had not been
as the law required, by any
testimony. The prosecution
!aimed that Coleman, having put himself
! communication with the authorities at
n early stage OF the conspiracy, was not
n informer, and that his evidence could,
therefore,, stand alone, and they wanted
be Judge to so instruct the jury. " | will
o nothing of the kind, said Judge John
On. " l entirely decline to take the ad-
ice OF counsel in the case" he said tartly
another stage of this war Of words, and
na'ly he ordered Mr. O'Brien to sit down.
ut counsel gave him as good as he gave
lem. Twice they fatty contradicted his
.atements, and when tie jury, after five
ours OF deliberation, could not agree, and
ere discharged, the Crown attorneys
lpped the climax Of their contempt for
is Honor by announcing that they would
efer the next trial of the prisoners until
lother Judge sat on the bench Such
enes are of rare occurrence in British
ourts, and you can imagine the sensation
le affair has caused. The Fenians, |
link, may be relied upon TO espouse the
use of Judge Johnson. II. T.