The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-12-26
DODGING THE DEPUTIES.
AN OFFICER TALKS OF THE TROUBLES
OF SERVING PAPERS.

Tricks to Avoid Jury Duty, Military Duty
and Debt Paying-How Women Some
times Annoy the Courts Representative.
Listen to Bis Tale OF Woo.
There are many notices that in the
course Of legal proceedings must be
served personally. Particularly In big
city like this, where there are many ten
ants in most houses, where there are
many servants, where there is a good
deal Of moving, and many letters go
astray, It is necessary to serve notices
personally upon persons who are anxious
not to be served, who do all that they
can to avoid service, and who get con-
federates to help them deceive the un-
fortunate officials who are trying to
serve them with papers
For man to deny his own Identity
and to have 1t denied by all his family Is
common. For him 10 depart by back
door or an alley or tue roof is equally
common. In divorce cases where the
defendant does not appear it is impossi-
BILE to get Judgment by default without
the most perfect evidence that the proper
party has been served. This has grown
out Of the experiences Of many cases
where the officer serving the summons
has either been imposed upon OF has
willfully permitted some person inter
:ested to personate the defendant. 1t Is q
good deal more difficult now than ever 1t
was to get a divorce without letting your
husband or wife know, Of It.
THREE oE a NAME.
A lady In Brooklyn used to get her hus-
band off jury duty in this way: Her
father-in-law, aged over rs; her husband,
aged 45, and her son, aged II, had all
the same name. When the man came
along with his bundle Of jury notices he
would say:
.sIs Mr.. So and So ina'
eyes, Which do you wish, the old
man or the young one2"
If the. man Of notices wanted the old
man he got one too old for jury duty.
:If he wanted the young one he got the
boy. Itneyer occurred to him that there
was a golden mean.
.'There are lots Of people, said dep
5uty sheriff, "who never have their names
in the City Directory and who move fre-
squently for the purpose Of avoiding jury
duty and military duty and personal
taxes. They think it easier to move than
to perform the duties Of citizens They
surround themselves with safeguards.
They have their letters sent to out Of the
way places. They tell servants and land
ladies not to let strangers come near
them. They will play deaf, dumb and
blind to escape notice. & They get so in-
trenched that they will walk by a deputy
sheriff and chuckle.
aOf course, when this sort Of thing Is
;resorted to there Is q way Of service by
publication, but this is only after q great
deal of time, money and patience has
been expended to make 1t apparent that
service is avoided. The difficulty Of
serving notices personally Is so well rec
.nized in the courts that there are many
provisions for service by publication. It
Is true that in many cases there is only
spretense Of serving notice and default
Is taken against party for non-appear-
ance when that party has not been served.
=, <, . ,,,,hIication = obscure newspapers.
8,,+ p +ha co,,rts are fnllv mn to that sort
Of thing, and In all cases where personal
service Is required the fullest and most
}co,,1;nc;no c nnoof "a Hernandez. either
tbat I dra notica haa he,e1 saerr-v,ed or that II
= E ,,v,ss;h1a 10 serve II. 81
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sona1 = - sar.,;n, "a - ;nd;snansahle ftis these
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non ,,i,o | no os:not ~ home H;a wire IN.
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seetns q e.idnee' sts'.S " 1aoo ".sn n.a
the lady to fix 1t up with her husband as
best she could.
81 have stood In the rain watching for