The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-27

! erty, the German went into the other
room and took it up. Immediately VIC
| lent hands were laid upon him. and a great
| hub-bub was raised and he was accused Of
stealing his own mug. The matter was
brought to triad and the German was con-
victed.
Another interesting instance of the
| strength of circumstantial evidence, re-
| ported in the Legal Observer, occurred in
| London in 1923. young man arriving
in the night at a crowded inn, was put
in room with the landlady's uncle.
The. youth rising just before daylight,
was surprised but not alarmed to find
his room mate gone. AS he was in
hurry to reach his destination, he left
without speaking to any one in the
house; but he had made but little pro-
gress on his journey when he was ar
rested. The landlady, going to her I'M
cle's room, had been unable to find him,
but the bed and floor was stained with
blood. She had at once caused the stran-
stranger to be pursued and upon being
brought back 1t was found that he had
on some of the missing mans effects,
which he had doubtless put on by mis-
take in the uncertain light of the early
morning. These facts, taken together,
were enough TO convict him and he was
hanged.
But most extraordinary thing hap
pened. The young man was gifted by ma
ture with a pair Of long legs, which now
did him good service for when the rope
was around his neck his toes could touch
the ground, so, with the assistance of
friends who stood by him, and secretly
boosted him up, he escaped strangula-
ton. The supposed corpse was then
given to friends who carried him away
safely and smuggled him out of England.
The first person he met upon stepping his
foot on foreign soil was the old man, OF
whose murder he had been convicted. Ex-
plantations ensued and all was set right.
1t seems that the lapdlady's uncle had
injured his arm and had it bandaged, but
told his niece nothing about the occur
renee. During the night on which he had
shared the room with the unfortunate
stranger, the bandage had slipped from
the arm and the wound had bled freely.
Dressing himself partially, he went out
to have the bandage replaced, but ON the
way had been met and carried off by the
press gang. So the man who had been
hanged and his victim returned to Eng
land in each others company.
The law is, in general, rather dry sub
ject, but it has its humorous side just the
same. Leading in Law" reports the case
of Boyston VS., Bennett. DIR. Boyston had
been in attendance on Peter Bennet's wife,
and sued the said Peter for medical SER
vice. When the evidence was in Mr.. Ste
phens, who was retained by the defend
ant, told him that the doctor had made
out his case, and that there was nothing
to be said on their side.
"Wall! but look here, Lawyer Ste
phens," objected his client, II paid you to
talk. You don't mean to say you amt
| agoing to say nothing?'
The counsel retorted somewhat angrily
that If he thought a speech could be made
he had better do the talking himself.
wall, then, I will!' he answered, and
he did. In winding UP his very clever dis
/ l., 1t Tt 100
Broyston was no doctor at all.
''What" cried the irate physician,
springing to his feet. mo doctor! Just
ask my patients if 1 am not!'
wall, 1 did ask my wife. and she didn't
! think you were"
DIR. Boyston was furious, but answered
calmly: your wife was prejudiced by you.
Ask some of my other patients"
Peter Bennett shook his head sadly, and
| appealed to the jury. That's hard say
ing, gentlemen of the jury, and one as re-
| quires for me to die! Or does the doctor
| suppose l am able to go to the lonely
churchyard and, knocking on the silent
! tombstone, demand of them as is at last
resting from physic and doctors bills,
| Get up here, you, and state if you died a
nat'ral death, or was hurried up some by
! the doctorr He says ask his patients,
| and, gentlemen of the jury, they are all
| dead. Where's Mrs. Beasley's man, Sam?
| Where's Mrs Beak's woman, Sarah, who
was attended by him? 1t was prophesied
that her funeral would be on a certain day.
| Did this here doctor disappoint the
mourners? Not a bit of it, he had the
corpse ready an waiting. Where's that
! likely Bill as belonged to Mr.. Mitchell?
| Why he is in glory unsteady expressing
! of his opinion of DR.. Boyston. Where's
that baby gal of Harry Stephens? She's
where doctors cease from troubling and
infants is at rest. Gentleman, all he done
for my wife was to bandage her ankle.
He's eat chicken enough at my house to
pay for the salve, an | furnished the
rags an I don't reckon he charges for
making of it worse But I'm mighty glad
he didn't give her nothing for her in ards,
cause something made his other patients
die mighty suddin."
This harangue won the case Of Peter
| Bennett.