The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-31
SCORED A POINT WITH HER SHOE.
A Woman Lawyer holds 1t on High
for the Benefit OF the Jury.

A Woman Lawyer holds 1t on High
for the Benefit OF the Jury.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
The gallants Of America will ever tell
with gleeful tongues and bounding eyes of
delight the story of how the blades of
| Baltmo' drank champagne from the tiny
| slipper of witching, wicked Mrs. Padelford.
! The courts of San Francisco will perhaps
| date their bravest, breeziest days from the
time Clara Foltz took OFF her shoe and placed
it in srcbing evidence in Judge Troutt's
court.
That was yesterday. 1t was a good case
for snap and sensatiOn-the trial of James
E. Wells for forgery-a case that brings
into relief the virtues aud vices of that
strange woman, Ollie Hutchlns, false
mistress and true wife; slick swindler
i'll the city, heroine in the jumbled noun
tains. 1t drags out the story Of how Miss
Dick, rich and cautious, was cleverly
cheated Of her property by the substitution
of Ollie Hutcnins in her stead of how Pill
cher, cool in plot, clever in retreat, lost his
nerve and executed quick sdispatch with
his erSready prussia acid the moment he
was arrested; Of Ollie Hutchins who worked
the big job Oft with a placid exterior and
afterward went into great funk because
of her love for a man who believed her
straight" of the arrest and painstaking
prosecution of Wells, the other couspirator
And suddenly in this ola podrida of dark
crime and dull death, CLEANS the bronzed
heel of Clara Foltz's shoe
II this Portia of the local bar had sud
denly gathered her skirts, poised an unde-
termined instant on one foot, and suddenly
sent the other, glimmer Of light and frills,
at the chandelier, it could hardly have Gre
ated half the sensation her slow. determined
action did. Men of this civilization of 1.-THE
worlds extreme are not so all-Inaccus-
toned to little private pirouettiug when
the wine is brisk and footballs tinkle on the
tufted floor" But for woman TO stoop
deliberately In the stupid, gaping solemnIty
of a court room, with unbashful fingers
loose the latchets of her shoe, and, rising,
hold that shoe aloft, tor all to see who
would, and all to crlticse who dare--well,
that woman was very sure of her feet.
Few would cali Clara Foltz handsome
such hardihood is not distributed to the
MANY. She may or may not battle and
banter aud befuddle successfully with men
in the long, slow process of the law. But
handsome women, whose greatest care is "a
keep out of the law and who would snar
their jeweled fingers at Clara Foltz's learn
ing, would fidger with envy of the feet
which bear oil her weight of knowledge
and, like little mice, peep in and out from
beneath her tailored skirts.
Capt. T. w. Lees was under cross-ex-
animation relative to the description OF
Ollie Hutchins, which Wells hal furnished
HIM a few DAYS after the discovery of the
Dick forgery. Lees commended that the de.
Upton was misleading, and Mrs. Foltz
who is Wells attorney, sought to shake thai
contention.
"You must admit, Capt. Lees" said Mrs
Foltz, ''that the description given by Mr.
| Wells of Ollie Hutchins was as correct g
description as a man could well give Of q
| woman
The witness did not think go. The hight
was out of the way fully three inches, which
| is q great,deal when a woman is concerned
might not high-heeled shoe make suct
a difference in the appearance Of a woman p
~ don't think So"
The attorney for the defense remained
| silent for a moment and then seated herself
| Suddenly she stopped and took off her shoe
without the slightest ceremony. 1t was 6
small, low shoe. The dealer would call il
| meat 1t was more. The iustep was higi
and arched. Water may run under the
insreps OF the Shortridges-she was Short
ridge. The last on which that shoe wal
made was narrow, taperinR, ''aristocratic.'
| There was touch of pride in Mrs. Foltz'l
! face and poise when she held that bottine SC
the surprised judge and surprised witness
and eager jury could gaze upon it's slim per-
fecton.
Incidentally the heel was very Frenchy-
| very high.
The crowd looked on admiringly, thrilled
expectsnt, wondering what would come
next in the way Of delightful sensation.
"Do you see this shoe, Capt. LeesF asked
Mrs. Foltz deliberately.
eyes, ma'am," replied the captain in a
sheepish whisper.
Would not heel as high as this alter
the hight of q woman TO an appreciable ex
| tent"
| The detective glanced at the shce hastily
and confessed that it might do $3.50 would
| stills.
"Ah, yes; thank YOU" was all Mrs. Folt,
said as she sat down and with Il delft move
ment put the shoe on again. The Jury
seemed somewhat disappointed at her deft
! ness.
The smallest holes pierced by modern ma
chnery are 1900 part OF an inch in diameter
| I ley are bored through sapphires. rubles aut
diamonds by machine invented by one Johl
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