The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-30

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4 spirruts saying YES to this Important
question right under the sixt juror
cheer The old man gave q JUNG that
made the TELLER next To him look ugly
4 at him. and could see him a. pinchinf
I 81 his leg to be- sure Of his own exist-
1 ences Then see HIS lips Il nloyffr's was
/ he astin' the question hisSe1 so as to
be sure 10 weren't no mouse under the
tfoor3 Evidently Tommy Thought SO.
ter rap rap. Taps came the answer
again.
THAT settled the old spirituaIist.
kunIiel: he casht up his eyes In tanks
givin's and then turned to the defendant
and smiled. Thereaf ars testimony to-
u have any effect on HIM, had Co BE- ratl-
fed from above. And Tommy give hisn
plenty To- think about, As each prose-
cutin witness was sworn and bowed his
head and kissed the book in sign that
he would tell the true. the hull trut'.
and nothin but the tFut' so help him.
rap, rap. the no would come, and then
It wouldn't have made any difference IL
the uat had been taken on a stack OF
Bibles as high Us this room the sfxe'
juror wouldn' { have believed them. He
mad q ctuch on revelation, he had, and
the stouter and cluSer they SwQre up
to the statute, the more he looked as if
he'd like co indfct the hull push FUR
rank perjury.
w hAGM 1ElEA1hE lawyer utGWg Ills
opeutn' address the old man put his
hand to his ear and drank I'm every
word as If 1t was gospel. And we'll he
might, for when ever there was a par
t1cularty strong statement I'm Tnmmy's
favor, rap, rap. ran. the spirFuts would
so in hearty assent. that is with ona
exception, which for moment / feared
had spilled the hull kit You see,
Tommy was aitus q loose and careless
Teller. who would go into spazzums at
the tdee of anythin' like work, and do
S pose he thought that he had been
gfvin' the old man pretty good weight
At all events, jest when his lawyer
turned dramatically to the jury. and
said, says he: Look on this defendant
gents. sean his brow and features, and
ask yourselves this question, isn't he on
his very face a good, honest, honorable
lad? blow me If there weren't only two
raps. Whether Tommy was half asleep
or had touch of r. T.. Morse I can't
say, but the look of horror that swept
over the sixth jurors cOuntenance
brought him to his senses, and the third
rap followed, so loud, too. that bailfff
jumped up and yelled, silence, I'm the
COURT L took the fust chance e. shakef
my fist at the young rascal, and arter
that ne attended to biz.
Get a eVrdict of Acguittal. ;
"'Well. kunnel, the spirruts stuck by
Tommy good TROUT the hull proceed
ms, backin' up the allbi 70 which we off
the gang swore and givin' the deestrictN
attorney the nasty every time he open -
his mout'. And the judge, hisself,
didn't fare no different. He was agim'
the prisoner, that was plain, but when &
he tried to give him the double cross
with some such remark as, It is fer
you, gentlemen, to determine, under all
ha ri a ytDf
Of the defense, contradictory as it
would seem, is compatible with the
trut, rap, rap, rap, would come the
celestul affirmation, and at least one
man was convinced without shadder of
turniu'.
The jury fled out. eleven of them,
as they passed Tommy, givin' him the
evil eye, but the twelft, No. sixt', you
know, kinder raised his hand, like d
priest draggin' down blessinS, as much
as to say, you're all right, my SON
And he was all right, kunnel. though
as / set there and waited, [ thought Il
disagreement was all he could git but
when the door open agin, and l saw the
jury returnin with the old spirftualist
at the head | know'd that the verdict
must be. as it was, not guilty. And
I've heerd court officers tell as how the
jurymen said that though they stood
eleven to one for a while, they could
not resist the almost holy appeals of
the sixt' juror for an acqufttal, not i'm
the name of mussy but of justice.
which had spoken to him with a secret
vice. He was a nice old bloke, that hq
was. even if he was dead ratty ana
came and shook hands with Tommy
and asst him to his house. which Ton
my was too honorable to do for fear
he might be tempted to prig somethin'
And the gang had their spread that
night, kunnel. though the defendant
arter all was hardly able to be present.
You see. his knee was swollen from so
much unusual exertion. PIeadin' is
hard work, kunnei, even if it is done
by the spiTruts themselves.