The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1894-02-08
The Closing Week of
Court.

only play at, and the funny thing
about it is that the clients who ar,
backing the champions and paying
for the sport, don't know a thing
aboutit.
A few nervous pen strokes from
the Referee on the Bench, and som,
gaping simpleton who wanted Law
is stuck for hundred dollars or SO
stake money, besides fee for lii
champion in the ring, who, in Sun
day clothes, gets up and mumbles
some unintelligible jargon and 81,
down for the other party in long
clothes to go through like perform
ance.
On Tuesday the Jarndyce case,
Holl VS. Green came in. This case
had come up from the last term
"without prejudice" and after q
considerable amount of quaker
meeting performance, was continued
Oh until the next term for ''amend.
mept."
During breath n. spell in this
trial. the monotony was broken by
the appearance at the bar of little;
old, warthy Pole or Hungarian, ar
rested some time before and pat in
Jail for getting drunk and putting
''a stone as big as is used on kraut
barrer'on the railroad track, The
old Pole didn't know what was
wanted of him, and nobody could
tell Kim.
Oliver Wright gave him one of his
campaign speach pesoratlons. Col
Weldy addressed bim in French,
Jake Riason pointed pencil at him.
Carl Buerhans talked to him III all
the tongues he learned when visit
ing IN Enrope, from Cork to Con
stantinople. The interpreter was
worse than the old man in making
himself not understood.
Finally the old lad got it into his
head that there waS scheme set up
to get money out Of him. The OBJ
iect of the court was to get HIM to
plead guilty TO some venial otfcnse.
impose slight fine and let the old
rattle brain go home and 60 to
work.
The heroic Pole would not have
anything of this klEd. lie leaped
on his feet, un5uckled his leather
belt, wrapped it round his neck, and
showed that he would hang himself
if any more foolishness was tried
on him. 1t is sad that Freedom
shIicked when Knsciusko fell. ut is
the truth of history to say that tie
court room screamed, W hen our Pom
istowski. pretending to hang him.
self, fell into the hands Of the sher-
if and was carried off to jail.
The Fetherolf robbery case was
continued on account of the e'absence
of witnesses" not over two hundred
of the citizens of Perry having got
in when the case was called.
1t Is thought by next term, all the
citizens of Perry who can read, will
have read the Sentinel (lere VIC
may he permitted to remark, "now
is the time to subscribc'') and will
know something about the case and
have formed some kind OF an opin-
ion, and those who can't read may
talk in a way to qualify themselves
as witnesses on the question of
Character. Perry township don't
propose to get left, not lett oat of
the court house.
All day Wednesday and late
in the night. we had up a
Marion township dance. 1t
was reported to be case of High
Kicking, and the bald heads crowded
10 the ra,l. A fellow i'll frollc-
some mood, so he said, kicked up
before girl, kicking higher than
Ter head. An envious lover prompt
Y knocked him down, and the
Maid of Marion
'iie who at the semblance of a scar appalled,,
The owlets larum chilled with fear"
sued the kicker and stalked into
he court house with Minervas $ step
vhere Mars might quake to tread.
The astounding feature in the case
vas the appearance of Lawyer Da-
I'd son of Lancaster, in the saddle
gainst the Marion and Maid. Shades
f the historic past: set down. Ian
aster lovers, gallants and galcets,
o off, 90 out on the Lancaster and
Iamden Rail Road to Ash Cave, 60
until we recover from
he shock of a Lancaster Lawyer, a
andsome gentleman, an up i'll G
ocieter, coming the long journey to
ght little dutch girl-Oh Lord. 5
We pause to sharpen our pencll.)
We resume to remark that the {
iri won the case, and the LAWYER 9
rom Lancaster went out and off in
ne night.
Coming back to our moorlng, the :
ourt took up the familiar text, The
copies Rank and Motherwells, and
pent day at this. " hat was done