The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-29

The Scheduled and the Real Rates for De
Tending Petty Criminals.

The Scheduled and the Real Rates for De-
Tending Petty Criminals.
Philadelphia Times.
Don't talk to me about your big fees" said
poor little lawyer, with a last winters coat and
too previous last summers straw hat, yester-
day. Eyes. 1 know that John G. johnson
makes $50, 600 a year, that Fred Brewster gets
80 900 at a lick, and that Examiner Bispham
has life JOB in the never-ending Gas Trust
suit What want to know is how am to
scrape together enough to rnolify tho old duffer
who poses as my landlord. If somebody doesn't
SANDER somebody or pull somebody's nose or
steal somebody s eggs, so as to make q fee for
me, l shall be reduced to the necessity of serv-
ing clam chowder in Coney Island restaurant
for livelihood.
'What'll / take as feel What have you gotl
That coats not bad. Your shoes are whole yet.
But perhaps you have dollar or two In change.
I'd rather have the coin. Your coat might be
too large. have half dozen msfits in my
closet there that l got from other poverty
stricken clients. Seriously, the law trade is
frightfully dull and prices have slumped all to
nothing"
'sWhat do we take as fees9 Don't give it away,
| my boy. We take what we can get. The dock
angel leaves you never"
1.-The dock ANGEL"
ssYes; the creature OF the law who flits around
station houses and Quarter Sessions yearning to
assist oppressed and unfortunate humanity for
what there is in the job. have heard that
some lawyers have made a fair amount OF money
Cndb way. VI course tHey are not the fellows
who make the Philadelphia bar the ab,est and
most highly esteemed in the land. But they
must live, and the competition is intense"
What do they get9'
"a hearing at the Central Station is worth two
dollars and half and a Quarter Sessions trial
five dollars OF course, if there is more in the
client fees go up, and if there is less In him how
could lawyer, knowing as he does, that his
profession exists primarily for the protection of
the friendless, hesitate to take what little the
| poor wretch may have? Why I have seen law
yers actuated by this noble spirit defend men for
| oyercoats, silk handkerchiefs and pen knives
| knew an attorney who defended one fellow for
| two new shirts, and then, perhaps that he might
| have something to put the shirts into take the
| case of another fellow for an old valise. They
| do say that the lawyer needed the shirts much
more than he did the valise; but people, you
know, delight to say wicked things"
What are a dock angels scheduled 7ratesr
Now, that's rather an abstract question
| The schedule varies so much with the style and
clothes and gullibility of the client Now, 1
4 have known change of % per cent in the size
| of a fee to be caused in dock angels mind sim
/ ply by the way man sat Down. A good hard
/ sitter always gets low rates, because he won't
| stand any nonsense, and might very easily be
| scared away. nervous, timid uneasy sitter is
| pudding-pardon me-a very desirable client
| He will pay and come again, in proper and
| euifying way
But the scheduled rates7o
"Ah, pardonez moi Kindly refrain from pat
| ting your elbow through my hat Yes, saw
that you were leaning on it quite uaconscioasly.
/ wore it at SARATOGA last season, never to be-
| forgotten season for me- and have o scnti-
! mental regard for It Well, now, conceding
that the schedule rates are worth talking
about, ! would say SANDERS, $40, for