Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-04-26

a Lawyer and . Doctor 10 Search q
Practice.
A Medieo-Legd Partnership That Did Not
Work Wen Among the Minlag Camps
"A Missing Client Hanging
So From an Awning.

old ones VINO nave never nau nhuSn e1NS@
in the East. Almost every Western town
has an overplus of physicians and lawyers.
The former find the most to do and the lat,
ter get the most money. The sickness and
wounds which have to be attended TO are
numerous, but the capacity Of the patients
10 nav is not usually very great and ire
outntly amounts to nothing at all. For
this reason the doctors always make their
bills high, and when they collect one they
have received pay for several which they
never hope TO get direct Ten or fifteen
dollars a visit is a modest charge for many
of these inexperienced physicians, and IN
every serious case some one must De caiieu
in consultation, and be will put in bill
for S25 or $50 for half an hours time.
The LAWYERS are not called 80 often, but
,bey have to deal with men who have money
or who can get it, and they make money
when they can find anything to do. An
old lawyer and young doctor, the former
with a very fiery nose and the latter with
ONLY suspicion of moustsche, were here
last week prospecting for location. They
had been hunting together for about two
wears and had been unable to lind place
where the chances of success seemed good.
The LAWYER called the young man Doc ana
Doc called the young man Judge. In the
hotel the other evening they got to telling
some OF their experiences, and before they
bad gone far they were surrounded py q
large and appreciative crowd. They had
taken in in their travels about halt OF the
prominent mining camps, and when they
left here they announced that they intended
TO try their luck the coming summer up In
Idaho and Montana.
The first town we struck, the Judge
said, was Lead City, up in the Black Hills,
and as there were only three or four lawyers
ard doctors there we thought we had hit 1t
right the first time. We got couple OF
rooms and fitted up one for sleeping and the
other for an Office, while we took our meals
in a saloon beneath US. A week after we
bad located and got our signs out we sat
one evening talking matters over and won
dering if we hadn't made mistake after
all when our conversation was interrupted
~ two pistol shots that sounded almost as
if they were fired in our rooms. There was
a great hubbub, and as we rushed down
stairs there was a cry OF
"a doctor doctor Call doctor!
Heres one said, elbowing my way
through the crowd and making room for the
Doc; here's one right here.
The Doc and / saw at glance what the
trouble wes. Ono man had shot another
the saloon. The wounded man lay on
he ground and two or three men we're bold
pp his assailant perceived at once that
here was a case for both of US. So whis
pered TO the Doc to pitch in aud save the
! man 4 he could, aid | would see to the
legal defence of the guilty party. Oh, you
see, I'm older n be is, and | think all these
various aspects Of a case come to an elderly
person quicker than they do to younger
fellow He pitched in and so did !, and be,
fore midnight we were both solid, with all
The other doctors and lawyers in town hang
ing around with nothing to do.
Along about O clock in the morning we
both got to our room and reported progress
| He had dressed the man s wounds and was
to call again in the morning, and l had
seen the prisoner and had long interview
with him and his friends, planned out a very
brilliant line Of defense, and spent three bits
treating the deputy sheriffs. The Doc
reported that the wounded man seemed to
have money, and reported that the prison
er and bis crowd had agreed that if ] got
him clear | was to have $3.50 We went
down stairs and took couple Of drinks
in honor of our good luck, and then went to
btd confident that we had made good be-
ginning. The next morning the Doc was
M some time before me, because he was
little anxious about his patient, and, as he
was leaving the room, he said
"Ill be back after little. Wait half
an hour or so, and will go to breakfast
with you
81 got up after a while, and, as he had
not returned, eat down and began map.
ping out on paper the case OF my client. !
had Just got we'll into the business, when |
looked up, and there stood the Doc.
1.-The mans gone! he gasped, looking
vacantly around.
"'Gone whereH says |.
Don't know, he said Some Of the
BOYS say he's dead and buried, aud Others
say he's gone to Deadwsod. / couldn't find
any trace of him or the gang. saw your
client, though
Where 'boutsH saysl.
down here, hanging to an awning.
"Jerusalem I Gays !, aud | grabbed my
Ia. and walked down the street. Sure
ercrgh there was my man hanging dead to
a! awning. felt Of his pulse and of his
rockets, but didn't get anything. Every.
lody had disappeared from the town for the
iimc bling, and went back to our rooms.
We talked the matter over long and ear.
nesily, and after we had looked at the thing
in all its bearings we came to the conclusion
that young men had no chance in that
town, and left"
The Doctor who had listened atteutively
10 everything the Judge had been saying,
here took big bite Of plug tobacco and
said: You can't very often tell about a
town by appearances. We have found that
out. Places that seem to hold out the
iewest inducements are sometimes the ones
that offer the best chances. When we had
been in Tin Cup three weeks without get.
ting sight of q dollar, we came pretty near
deciding to leave, and guess We wo1ld, but
we were mighty short, and we have always
made it point either to leave q place be-
fore we got strapped, or to stay until we
made something. In this case we were
strapped, and there was no use Of thinking
Of making change in the condition we
were in then.
Zone day not long after this young wo'
man came into our Office and asked TO see
the Judge. He rose and greeted her in his
most majestic way, giving Ger the spare
chair. Then, when they had passed the time
Of day, she looked at me rather SHARPLY. the
Judge trowned, and 1 got up and walked
out. 1t seemed as though she would never
90, but finally / saw her trip away, and
crept sbiveringly back into the Office. The
Judge was radiant with smiles he had got
divorce case, and he believed that he
would be able 10 work me in as an expert.
/ listened to the recital OF the facts with
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