The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-03


Dor and quarreled about everything
in fact, nothing went right. Sn0ddy
was tall, athletic mau, with voice
like fog-horn, and pretended to be a
great lawyer.
Snoddy knew that Gordon would
not fight him at his home in the
presence of his family and he
took advantage of that fact to
abuse him there. b1t when down
town he was very docile and circum-
spect.
But GordOn's time arrived one day.
Now Gordon was smaller than
Snoddy, but he had an arm like a
sledge hammer.
Gordon came out of the old court
house one day III the spring of the
year, when court was in progress.
Charlie found Snoddy on the steps
abusing little carpenter who was
about half the size OF SnOddy. Cor
don listened to the berating Snoddy
was giving the little man a few min
ut and then stepped in and said:
81 be ieve my time has come to get
even with you," and he laid Snoddy
prone ON the sidewalk, mixed In the
dirty slush and snow witt one good
blow with his strong right arm, and
as he raised to a perpendicular he
dealt him another and another until
he scrambled at a good place beyond
the reach of The muscle of the
throttle puller.
They lived neighbors for sometime
after that, but SnCddy never trOub-
led Charlie Gordon any more.
The would be lawyer had enough.
Lawyers are always fruitful SUBJ
jects. They are erratic full of meth
DDS and they, as mass, are honor
able, generous to a fault and of ali
the professions, do more work without
ray than any other, with the excep-
tiOrs of the newspapers.
A few years ago while Col. Henry
LaTm was the able prosecuting a.
torney OF Pelfis county, a young man
was arrested for sealing from a
dwelling house which is grand larceny
under The Mi souri, law. The fellow
was mt 10 the county Jail in default
of bond and while there engaged an
attorney paying him a nominal re-
tainer and was 10 pay more before
trial. When the case came up for
trial he refused TO pay the attorney
more, hence, he 10 open court with
drew from the case. Judge Ryland
who was ON the bench cast his optics
over the court room to select an at
torney TO be appointed to defend the
fellow.
The court appointed Capt q w
Barnett, one of The ablest attorneys at
the Petlis county bar to defend the
petty thief.
Barnett ran both hands into his
pockets and gracious'y accepted the
preferment and beckoned to the pris-
oner who followed the attorney toto
Tue CDusulldtiUu IOOul.
Now comes the denouement.
When the two retired from the
court room Barnett asked the pris-
oner about his case, If he had any
witnesses and so on in a general way,
the attorney gazing abstractly out of
The window. Finally he turned to-
ward the prisoner and began talking
to him in a discouraging tone, when
his client threw his right foot on his
left knee and with a pen knife took a
piece of leather from the heel of his
right shoe and extracted therefrom
SIS in good lawful money. He
handed the money to the attorney
and said
"Take that aud make as good a
fight as you can-I'm in bad box"
The two walked back into court the
prisoner taking a seat and the attorney
with an indescribs bic look on his
face, stood in front of the judge and
asked for continuance until the SUBJ
sequent term, which after some argu-
ment was granted.
The next term Barnett tried the
case with his usual energy and vigor
and hung jury was the result, and
at the next term, l believe the case
was dismissed, because the witnesses
against the accused failed to material
[ izs.
The ways of the thieves are dark
and mysterious and the methods of a
shrewd, amb' ious, working attorney
ale equally mysterious at the same
time hcnorah'e.
SIMEON DINwIDDIE,
Deacon.
A man who has praciiced medicine for
( 40 years, ought to know salt from sugar ;