The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03
HIS HONOR JUDGE CLANCY
Presiding in the Famous Penn
sylvania Case.
HIS MANNER ON THE BENCH
Patient Through Long Drawn Out and
Tedious Litigation-Prompt and
Positive in His Decisions.
Enjoys Joke.

The witnesses come and go, some of
them fitting past quickly, ard others
sticking in the eye of the court for
days like barnacles; he lawyers work
in pairs and trios and alternate at in
tervals; but the judge remains ever
the same in the fast becoming cele-
brated Pennsylvania mining case
Judge Clancy has sean seven weeks
come and go in the trial of the case,
and is entering the eighth with every
appearance of philosophy ana COMO
sure. Once in while he remarks
with a touch of irony tnat the case
seems good for a Christmas enter:ain-
ment but he gives no other evidence
of being disturbed. His favorite posi-
ton during the daily proceedings is
with his side to the body Of the court
room. He sits low in his cnair, will.
his head resting in his hand and lis
elbow planted on Inc table ut his side.
In this comfortable and characteristic
position he listens t. the disnihed
warning of the lawyers or the dulcet
purrng of the with s%Sps. while the air
resourds with explanations of the i'm
propriety of what the other legal gen.
tlemen wish to do, or the slopes raises,
porphyry bikes, SrI 5Eefse assures,
east and west veins. rortn and south
lodes and projected a1.ccs march in
stately procession, across the "stheti-
ca1ly cOlored ma oS and u and Down
the intrlcately and beautifully Ger
structed models of the litigan-s.
When he wearies Of this position or
has something to say, he faces al cut.
leans both elbows on his table and
looks down on the court room While
he is slow and deliberate in his speech
and manner, he is dire. and decided
in his expressions. His ."nclusiars
upon objections to thu Introduction of
evidence are formed quickly as rule,
and his rulings are ies!e:ad promptly.
They are usually off hand and are
seldom to be affected by the protest,
explanation or argument o. coun: ell.
The form his rulings Customarily take
is: well, the objection is cverrule3
Cor sustaineO. give counsel an eNcep-
ton In the admission of evidence his
policy is liberia! AMI he apparently he
lieyes in excluding nothing that It not
manlfestly incompel an.
Judge Clancy is generally good ia
tured, and let's the trial go on almost
altogether without int 'rl ,t;01 or re-
mark He seldom intarposas uues-
vate notes are infraquent When he
does talk, however, he is inclined IT, be
jocose. He likes a joke. and frequently
smiles at the sara site tits between
the laweys: and while he is not so
partial to wise saws, he likes the smack
of modern instances. providing ,h.y
are humorous and give the point Il Zig
barb. Sometimes he becomes nnpa-
tent over the verbose narratives Of the
witnesses or the Wrang ines Of cour-
sci, and then he cuts these matters off
and moves the pro - al rrs onward.
The judge is obligi:,s ID the lawyers,
and arranges the prota 1inss to suit
their convenience. Out Of regard Cor
the weight and importance % tho case
he has kept the rial going steadily
every day in the weN1 since it opened
with hardly an inta'mission. At the
rate al which it is moving this Dra rii-
cal, patient and pc 'sis;ent metitd will
bring it to an end n d business Ike
period, Notwithstanding the tremen-
dOus mass of evidence intrOduceH