Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-15
4 DRESS SUITS TALE.
Difficulties Which Attended . Young Law
yer's Entree to Society.

Difficulties Which Attended Young Law
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, a tailor At
No. 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.. OConnor. The evil
dence brought out these peculiar points:
Lawyer O'Connor one day found him
self the recipient of an invitation to
swell social affair uptown. This seemed
to be 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 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 O'Connor to Dennis Shea, q
dealer whose specially is dress suits to
loan for fair consideration. In this
case the consideration was fixed at "a. so
for the evening. O'Connor 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.. O'Connors
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 a
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
VIC ASAb Aay, AOI VIC OSAt Week, 6uO NJ
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 O'Connor.
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..
O'Connor was serene.
he was treading the fowery paths Of
Bacchus and didn't care a 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..
OConnor was lawyer enough to know
it would be point against him if he
appeared in court wearing the suit At
issue, and by some heroic effort he
managed to appear in = regulation suit.
He and his lawyer made hard fight,
but judgment for the value of the
hired suit was recorded against him.
The whole tendency of the case went to
show that getting into society in hired
dress suit is attended with dangers and
drawb2cks-N. Y. World.