The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14
I will not order complaint in this

/ case.
Thus Magistrate Mott delivered him
self IN the Centre street police court
! New York. recently, when Motorman
Michael Cunningham of the Sixth ave-
nue. line, living at 1928 West Forty
| ninth street, was arraigned before him
! charged with starting up his car sud
| denly at the corner of West Broadway
and Beach street yesterday morning,
and throwing off Policeman Edward
| Kelly, thirty-five years of age, who, as
a result, was run over by truck.
Reilly is now in the Hudson street hos
! pltal with scalp wound, several brok-
| en- ribs. and a possible broken back,
and he may not live.
| Policeman Charles Mckinney of the
! Church street station, who was passing
when the accident to Reilly happened
| said that Reilly was standing on the
running board of the car which was
! slowing up, and had hold of the brass
upright of the car. Just as the car had
slowed up little, Mckinney says, it
| started again with a jerk and Reilly
was thrown on his back on the pave
ment, directly under the wheels of a
large truck which was following the
car Before the driver of the truck
could stop the truck the wheels had
| passed over Reilly.
An ambulance was summoned from
the Hudson street hospital, and the in
jured man was taken there. Mckinney
maintained that it was the motorman's
fault and he arrested him. He was in
dignant when Cunningham was releas-
ed
The coroner's jury in Idaho impan-
eled to inquire into the cause of the
death of Duff" Greene, after a session
extending over three days. rendered
the following verdict
In the matter of the inquisition up
on A. d, Greene, deceased, we, the
jury, find from the evidence produced
by heart failure, superinduced by gun
Ishot wounds inflicted by gun in the
hands of j. F. Ailshie and that j. +.
Ailshie fired the shots in self defence.
I'VE, the jury, therefore find J. F.
Ailshie not guilty of criminal intent
~ o. Wilkinson, e. S. Sweet, Henry
Murray, John A. Hanson, George
Brown, W. e. Graham, Joe Wade"
At the close of the last century there
was an Irish judge named Robinson,
who, in the words of Lord Brougham,
was 1.-The author of many stupid, knav-
fish and scurrillous pamphlets" for
which he had been raised to the bench.
Soon after John Philpot Curran was
called to the bar he appeared in a case
heard before this judge, and in combat
ing some opinion of counsel on the 9TH
Ter side remarked that he could not find
in his law books a single instance in
which the principle contended for was
Established
THAT may be, sir" said the judge,
but I suspect your library is very lin
Iited"
ut is very true, my lord, that owing
to circumstances my library is rather
small, said Curran in a scathing re-
tort, but have prepared myself for
this high profession rather by the study
Of few good books than by the com
position of great many bad ones"
On another occasion Lord Chancellor
Glare, who had discussion with Cur
ran in court on some legal point, ex-
Iclaimed sharply So
"Oh, if that be law, Mr.. Curran, 1
may burn my law books"
You had better read them, my lord, ,"
was Curran's happy rejoinder.
A more good-humored encounter was
that between Chief Baron OGrady and
Charles Kendall Bushe, the eminent
lawyer and subsequently chief justice
of the kings bench at the Kilkenny
assize, which was held in a court house
AUDITING on the fair green. While
Bushe was addressing the jury a dom
key on the green began to bray. wait
minute, Mr.. Bushe, please" said the
judge Il can't hear two at a time!"
Presently as the judge was summing
up, the animal commenced crying
again, will your lordship speak lit
tie louder" said Bushe; there is such
an echo in the court
In the recent case of Richardson VS.,
Florida Central, ETC., Railroad Com
pany, the supreme court of South Car
DINA held that the owner of dog
could not recover damages for his Hill
ing by railroad train, no presumption
of negligence arising against the rail-
road in such. 1t was admitted that
the dog saw the train approaching, that
| the whistle was blown and that the en-
! CINE turned loose both steam cocks
which produced a noise calculated to
warn any well-regulated dog off the
track. In view of these facts the
court considered that no owner could
reasonably expect a train engaged in
| interstate commerce to stop and wait
until his dog saw fit to yield the right
Of way. The judgment of non-suit in
the lower court was affirmed.
At the meeting of the American Med
ical Association recently held at Column
bus, o. DR.. Daniel Brewer of Chicago
delivered an address on THE medical
| aspects of crime" in which he made
the surprising statement that crime
throughout the United States was in.
creasing lin vastly more rapid ratio
than the population He attributed
this fact largely to the constant ant
rapid increase in the population of ouI
cities, and suggested that legislative
measures should be adopted to keer
down the unproduetive element. DR.
Brewer further stated that "alcoholic.
were the direct or indirect cause Of
probably rs per cent of all crimes com.
mitted." He advocated undetermined
sentences and the bestowal of the par.
doning power upon boards Of specially
qualified persons.
The late Daniel w, VOORHEES, wa,
once engaged in amurder trial at Louis.
vile. 1t was very warm day. and tht
court room was packed to suffocation
AS voorhees, arose to begin his argu
ment he cast his eye over the jury. and
discovered that one Of the members ha6
rallen asleep. Frowning with indigna
ton, he motioned to one of the court
ofneiais, and in few seconds the slum.
perer was shaken rudely into conscious
ness. He was a fat, timid-lookins
man, and was SO mortified and aghasi
at the enormity of his offense that ht
could hardly find words in which II
reply to the sharp questions of tht
judge. Finally he managed to blurt
out that he could not help doing of
whenever 1t was warm and crowded
IF the gentleman always sleeps where
| II is warm and crowded" said Woor