Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-05
TOLD OUT OF COURT.
The Betting Doctor and the Taking
Lawyer-Mnssachuse Lore.


The Brooklyn doctor has been visiting the
Detroit lawyer. They were college chums,
relates the Free Press, and when thrown
together again they were the same jolly pair
they had been at Yale.
Remember that bet I won of you?"
laughed the doctor. ''Tll never forget it.
You wagered that the sun moved about the
earth from east to west. Took you in good, +,
old man. Trouble is that you leaped before
you thought. 1 was always lucky better.
Have the same mania for it yet. Not in n
sporting way, you know, but just among
friends. Great joke, wasn't it?" and the
doctor laughed lond and loud. always said
you'd get even, but I'll see that you don't
chummie."
A little later the two were talking about
the litigation over big estate in Michigan
the doctor being acquainted with one of the
principals interested.
How much do you think I made out of
that case?" asked the lawyer
"A good round sum. I'll warrant
What would you say to a thousand?"
"I'll bet fifty 1T was nearer ten thousand, -
and the doctor had the money on the table
in twinkling. 1t was covered just as
quickly
Got you again." chuckled the doctor.
get?"
Nothing wasn't employed in that case
at ALL"
The doctor took 1t very hard for an hour
and then grew more cheerful as he laughed
over the prospect of working a similar joke
on friend at home.
The lover of quaint and curious volumes
of forgotten lore. reports Law Notes, can
derive considerable entertainment from an
examination of Quincy's Massachusetts Re-
| ports, which cover the period from 1861 to
1772. On page 1GS, under date of August
27, 1865, the reporter gives a most touching
account of how, on the night before, an
ircensed mob destroyed the house of the
chief justice, Thomas Hutchinson. esq. It
| seems that the chief justice was suspected
of promoting or encouraging that singular
and ever memorable statute, the stamp act"
The populace of Boston, on the night in
question, gathered in King street and after
| wreckng and burning few houses by way
of getting their hand in. started to call on
the chief justice, who, not expecting them.
! was unattended by his friends, who might
have assisted or proved his innocence" ON
the approach of this rage-intoxicated rab-
ble' all the family retired in some con-
fusion, except the worthy judge and his
eldest daughter. The latter refused to leave
him and so, with tumult of passions
only to be imagined, he took her In his
arms and carried her to a place OF safety.
Just before the incensed mob arrived, This
flial affection saved, tits more than prob
able, his lfe." However, the ''populaee Of
Boston" seems TO have enjoyed itself not
withstandng the hasty departure Of the
host. for they beset the house on all sides
and soon destroyed everything Of value"
Next morning. so says the reporter. his
honor came into court clothed in a man
ner which would have excited compassion
from the hardest heart" and addressed the
court as follows; There not being quorum
without me. ! am obliged to appear. Some
apology Is necessary for my dress-indeed
had no other Destitute Of everything
20 other shirt-no other garment but what
have on-and not one in my whole fam
lly in a better situation than myself The
distress of whole family around me, young
and tender infants hanging about me, is
Infinitely more insupDortable than what /