Passaic City record., 1893-07-15

at it.
Cant you give us a specimen"
"Weil l can't be sure that |
quite remember it, but it was
something like this.
with geHflemeH'S names Crosbys
loves to appear
So on reading the list none can vent
ure to sneer
But when pay-time comes round, he
exclaims in high glee
Mary guinea nor penny for I0W, dye
see?"
"Comica1 certainly, but nothing
very dreadful, I'm sure. Was that
the worst?
90 there were others, and one
of them ran as follows You must
know that his lawyer for 'solici-
tor as they call them over there)
rejoiced in the name of Trinders.
when Crosby needs brains he calls
upon Trinders."
(For fools to be foolish. sure nobody
hinders)
Then Trinders most terrible letters
doth write
For the bark OF some ours is far worse
than their bite!
"Well, I don't wonder that they
felt little sore, both of them. !"
"Well in time, my summons
arrived, and' slightly mistrusting
the integrity of Johnny's forensic
skill, (where we contumacious and
sblarsted Nc. Kinleyites' were
concerEed,) | thought | would
venture to defend myself at the
Old Bailey and favor them with
a little Yankee chin-music at the
same time"
"And how did you get out of it
ALP
How did I get out of it?
Well the shortest way to answer
that question would be to show
you a slip from one of the papers
and here it is:
Or. Thomas Boor Crosby caught
a tartar when he brought suit
against Jerome Hopkins for libel
in sending him sarcastic
poetry on postal cards, because DIR.
Crosby refused to pay his subscrip-
ton to one of Mr.. Hopkins con-
certs. Mr.. Hopkins was tried at
the Old Bailey before jury, and
though he was found guilty and
compelled to enter into his own
recognizances in LIoo, he had
fun enough with DR.. Crosby to
compensate for all his trouble.
Mr.. Hopkins addressed the jury
for two hours, keeping them, the
Judge, spectators, and even Or.
Crosby's counsel, in continuous
roar of laughter, while the Doctor
himself writhed in his chair and
doubtless wished from the bottom
of his heart that he had paid the
guinea when due. It was such a
scene as the Old Bailey never wit
messed before, and when the case
was concluded, a throng of bew1g-
ged English barristers crowded
about the American Musician and
heartily congratulated him.
Mr.. Jerome Hopkins himself IN
vited the suit for libel, knowing
full we'll that he would be convict
ed and willing to take the conse-
quences, but that he would never
theless have the satisfaction OF
vindicating his previous course in
having sued DR.. Crosby for swind-
ling and showing up the ignorance
and comical semi-illiteracy OF a
London Court Judge.
The Pianist had not even tlI1e
to paw. for his friend Sir John
Brinsmead was present and sign
ed his bond, and the whole bus1-
ness was over inside of three hours.
MIR. Hopkins had not been ARREST.
ed" nor was he imprisoned, :
but got off much easier than the
famous poet Leigh Hunt, who
suffered many months imprison-
ment for his libel, and most honor
ably. In concluding the true ac-
count of his dose of English law,
the Pianist spoke as follows in
paraphrase of the old song about
the stDcvil and the Lawyers
"If all they have said of each other be
true,
Till they get home the Devil is rob-
bed of his due,
But zVztA0ut them at all, 1t may be
Just as well.
For such villains would ruin the NOR
ais of hill"