The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-02

agreed YETI"
"Just about" replied Asbury.
There's few little details to arrange.
but we have decided to hang you to.
morrow at 10 o'clock. -
ooh, now, tell me, f" urged the bow.
''Run along home, Ludovic," said
Asbury, "and don't monkey with the
jury. Wero still delibe1atin. -
When tho boy was gone, they sat on a
big box and talked until time hung
heavily OH their hands.
'How would it do, fellows,n said
Doc Miller at length, to wake up tho
jury and take another vote?''
GOOD idea' answered Asbury.
"And I've got way to wake 'em,"
continued Doc. 1--WE will use the hose"
There was we'll at the curb lust in
front of the stairway with force pump
i'll 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 other man applied their strength to
the pump handle. Tho jet of water
mounted higher and higher until it
was above the windows, and then, with
the precision and care that n woman
bestows i'll 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 q
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
tho 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 tho same results to z. The argu-
ment was resumed with vigor, and the
constable, who had come back, was in
vited i'll out of politeness and permitted
to take part i'll the discussion. At 8
O'Clock they took another vote, and the
constable, not being allowed to partioi-
pate. went back into the deputy prose.
cutors room to sleep.
Doc Miller was getting restless.
You can do as you please about
coming to averdict, he said. "but Two
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. Tho
foreman saw him walking up the street
and called him from window to como
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 ID jurymen Now we
can't connt out but IL, and we can't
como to verdict cithcr''
"Where is Doc?" asked the squire.
Hes gone big circuit into the
country and said he would be back at
noon.''
"You don't say? If that amt nerve!
Well, I'll guarantee he don't run away
from another jury"
But it was the constable's fault as
much as anybody's. He went off and
left us. -
The squire was comparatively new
man i'll 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 short time he came back
and called tho foreman out.
"You didn't come anyways near to
an agreement" he asked
"No."
You think there 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
to g."
The squire pulled his beard thought
fully.
Purity badly mixed up scrape, " he
said. 60 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 noH.''
MIR. Harvey was disappointed on
learning that there had been no verdict
Squire" he said, Twelve got work
on hand that's pressin, and 1 wish we
could stop this thing right where it is
some way
yes" assented the magistrate. ST
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 it?''
ooh, no." said the squire eagerly
here was happy solution of tho diff
Guilty. ''Td be as easy as 1 could on
him.
So the case was closed OH that basis
The law was satisfied and the dignity
of the court was maintained, although
it had looked squally for awhile Chi
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