Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-02-19
A DRESS SUITS TALE.
Difficulties Which Attended a Y6ang Law.
yer's Entree to Society,"

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yer's Entree to Society.
A case recently decided before Judge
Fallon, of the Ninth District Court, de-
veloped some unusually picturesque
features. Daniel Bradley, tailor at
No. s West Twenty-sixth street, OPP
posite Delmonico's, was the plaintiff,
and John T. O'Connor, lawyer at 1877
Broadway, was the defendant.
Philip Carpenter, of the Potter Build
ing, brought the suit for Bradley and
carried it (the lawsuit-not the dress
suit) to successful issue.
Attorney Killsheimer, of No. 1877
Broadway, represented the somewhat
rocky case of Mr.. O'Connor. The evil
dence brought out these peculiar points:
Lawyer O'Connor one day found him
self the recipient of an Invita- ton to o
swell social affair uptown. This seemed
to be a somewhat unusual event in his
career, as it found him without dress
suit. He hurried off to Mr. Bradley, the
tailor, where he sought to negotiate the
loan of a spike-tail coat and the other
personal adornments necessary to sue
cesSful entree to the social swim
Bradley didn't keep dress suits to hire,
but having desire to help a struggling
man along in the world he introduced
Lawyer OConnor to Dennis Shea, a
dealer whose speciality is dress suits to
loan for fair consideration. In this
case the consideration was fixed at $4 SO
for the evening. OConnor didn't have
the ''four-ffty," and Mr.. Shea did cash
business, and hence the negotiations
were blocked.
Bradley's kindness of heart again
came to the rescue, and he consented to
go OConnor's security for the dress suit
for the evening. Thus it was that soci-
ETY. was not deprived of Mr.. OConnor's
presence, as he bloSsomed out in much
radiance in the hired suit, and for that
occasion, at least, as Wordsworth puts
it, society became his glittering bride"
The dress suit seems to have been
good fit and otherwise satisfactory to
Lawyer O'Connor, for he did not return
it next day, according to the stipulations
in the lease. Neither did he return it
the next day, nor the next week, and he
has not returned it yet That is the
reason the red-eyed law was invoked.
Shea wanted his money, and had re-
course on Bradley as surety. Mr.. Brad
ley paid, and then began to look around
for OConnor.
Investigation showed that Mr.. O'Con-
nor had ''hocked' his business suit and
was disporting himself by night and by
day in the hired suit the rent of which
was all the time piling up.
While Jay Gould might have been
appalled, by such situation, Mr.
OConnor was serene.
He was treading the f1owery paths of
Bacchus and didn't care rap for ex-
penses The matter went on until
Lawyer Carpenter was forced to bring
suit, which was done before Judge
Fallon. When the case came to trial Mr..
O'Connor was lawyer enough to know
1t would be a point against him if he
appeared in court wearing the suit at
issue, and by some heroic effort he
managed to appear in a regulation suit
He and his lawyer made a hard fight
but judgments for the value of the
hired suit was recorded against him.
The whole tendency of the case wenteto
show that getting into society in hired
dress suit is attended with dangers and
draw backs.-N. Y. World