New-York tribune., 1885-01-28
BoYS TRIUMPH OYER THE LAWYER
WILLIE soLEs MORE THAN MATCH FoR CROSS
QUESTIONING.

WILLIE sOLES MORE THAN MATCH FOh S""'S"
QUESTIONING.
William A. Soles, a frowsy haired boy some
fourteen years old, kept two lawyers busy yestcruy
before Justice Barrett and afforded amusement ior man!
spectators He was witness for his mother In her SUIT
for limited divorce from John T. Solos,. an organ
builder Of One-hundred and-forty MIS-, soieS
told her story OF alleged cruelty, referring In
TO time when her husband grabbed her by the neoA'
pushed her from the dining room into the ha anu 'io
her upon the floor. when the boy took the stsho MS
light hair stood end and his face determneu
look well my boy" said Lawyer Unermeyer cheei
fully. " what do you know about the case II Ine oo'
gathered himself together took long BREATH ana thoh
exploded "Well all know of the case IL lhis h'
father is guilty OF using vile and opprobrious epthe'S
toward my mother he and then young william i'i'"
fully and at railroad speed reclted the complaint III '
case The court amazed and the audience degh'eu
So was the mothers counsel The other counsei was
not Lawyer Blandy looked glun. The boy at last came
10 an end and glanced around with triumphant aii'
Then Lawyer Blandy tenderly took him In hand. VII
lie" said aiectionltely, you give tho reasos
which induced your father to lay violent hands upon
your mother T.
The reply was prompt" Ask mo something easy.
The boy did not smJ; nor did Lawyer Blanoy' iH0
spectators did. deliberately.
willie" continued the cross-quc'tioniug Lawyer
Blandly do you know the meaning OF the word oppro
brious1"
"Yes," was the laconc answer
. Please inform the court what you mean by oppro-
biOus :"
The boy retired within his inner consciousness mo
ment and then shot himself fin this mamner" 1t means
bad and it language that Is vile and not Dc
coming for"
"That will do. willie"
Willie paused on the brink OF Webster and Worcester
Then the lawyer tried another tack willie. said be,
with wonderfully persuasive intonation, "is your
mother good talker I" =.
"IOu have heard her mere IN court; you oub"' w
know" Willie replied .,,
The spectators made the lawyer look uncOmiortaplc
because OF their untbinkug lau yhtcr. ,
Willie then told how his mother "spoke IN
meeting" from her seat when she ATTENDED
temperance meetings; she took the platform; shc
dwelt upon the way In which liquor affected men, MS
mother had never Knocked his father down.
Lawyer Blandv Inquired slyly-" Willie did You ever
strike your motherr 80,
Yes" said he promptly, 81 have been n very bad hoy
toward her My father encouraged rather than opposed
me-" Then Willie stepped dOwu with conscious dignity
Mr. soes denied the charge OF cruelty and related now
Mrs SOles. who belonged To Baptist church. had torn
down sign to rt" which he had dared To put on h-
house sunday She objected t0 this ~ being aRahst
rules i" OF the church. TIE climax Of trouble was
reached when he sold To the church organ which MS
daughter said her Mrs. SOles had cooked ony
one breakfast "a month for him, on the ayriase
May members of the church and Of the 'IO-Ir rem
peTance Union present yesterday. Mr. SOles VIII
toll more of the organ episode To day.