Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-06-26
Il guess we get as hungry as you do, )

MY uOuSe Is GUS uedTeSG. we IL go
there and get something to eat"
So the three went over to Asbury's
and got lunch, and in about an hour
they strolled back smoking. The town
corner they heard footstep down to-
ward the creek, and after they had
waited short time the Harvey boy
the defendant-came up.
"Hello!" he called. ''Has the jury
agreed yet?'
"Just about" replied Asbury
"There's few little details to arrange,
but we have decided to hang you to-
morrow at 10 O'Clock
''Oh, now, tell me, urged the boy.
run along home, Ludovic," said
Asbury, land don't monkey with the
jury. We're still deliberatin. -
When the boy was gone, they sat on
big box and talked until time hung
heavily Oh their hands.
''How would it do, fellows" said
Doc Miller at length, Ito wake up the
jury and take another voter"
"Good idea!' answered Asbury.
IAHu l NS SoO q way w "sthO Clup
continued Doc. eve will use the hose"
There was well at the curb just in
front Of the stairway with force pump
in it. The hose, which two or three
merchants used for sprinkling the street,
was coiled up at the curb. They took it
and made the coupling and carried the
nozzle end around the corner under the
courtroom windows. Asbury held the
nozzle pointing upward while Doc and
the pump handle. The jet of water
mounted higher and higher until it
was above the windows, and then, with
the precision and care that a woman
bestows in watering her flower beds, he
trained the stream into the first win
dow, and then the second and the third.
Two Of the sleeping jurymen at a
window recovered their presence Of
mind after their shower bath soon
enough to look out and see Asbury be-
fore he had made good his retreat
around the corner with the hose, but
the canes and other articles they threw
went wild by several yards.
When the runaway members went
up stairs, the jury were thoroughly
awake, and they took another vote,
with the same result-5 to Z. The argu-
ment was resumed with vigor, and the
constable, who had come back, was in
vited in out of politeness and permitted
to take part in the discussion. At 8
O'Clock they took another vote, and the
constable, not being allowed to partici-
pate, went back into the deputy prose-
cutor's room to sleep.
Doc Miller was getting restless.
"You can do as you please about
coming to a verdict, he said, "but I've
got to go and see some patients in the
country. You fellows can take your
time for it. I'll be back about noon."
And an hour later they saw him driv-
ing away.
The old squire was out early. The
foreman saw him walking up the street
and called him from window to come
back and give them some further in
structions.
"When we started in, said the fore
man, when the old man came into the
room, eve had IL jurymen. Now we
can't count out but II, and we can't
come to verdict either. "
"Where is Doc?" asked the squire.
"He's gone big circuit into the
country and said he would be back at
noon"
"You don't say? If that amt nervel
Well, I'll guarantee he don't run away
from another jury"
ssD,t xuoc tho 70 b1o,S fo,,1t
much as anybody's. He went off and
left u.s.
The squire was a comparatively new
man in the administration of law, and
the situation was becoming entirely too
complicated for him to unravel. He
went away to consult the deputy prose-
cutor. In a short time he came back
and called the foreman out.
"You didn't come anyways near to
an agreement" he asked.
"No"
"You think there s no chance of COM
ing to verdict when Doc gets back?"
"No. Every man has made his mind
up. The vote is always the same-7
to g."
The squire pulled his beard thought
fully.
"Purty badly mixed up scrape," he
said 81 can't for the life of me see any
way out of it, only to dismiss the case.
Here come the boy and his father now."
Mr.. Harvey was disappointed on
learning that there had been no verdict.
Squire" he said, "we've got work
on hand that's pressin, and wish we
could stop this thing right where it is
some way"
eyes" assented the magistrate. II
wish we could get it off our hands too"
"How would it do" suggested Mr..
Harvey, "for Ludovic to step in right
now and plead guilty and pay it off? 1t
wouldn't come very high, would it2'
"Oh, no." said the squire eagerly
here was happy solution of the diff
Guilty "I'd be as easy as 1 could on
him..
So the case was closed on that basis.
The law was satisfied and the dignity
of the court was maintained, although
it had looked squally for awhile.-Chi-
cago Record.
Gain For the Taxpayers.
With the cOnyictS on the roads it is