Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-07-05

I general c1dN1uS OIL Oh QedOSedr COM
menced. All the men there wore soft
| hats of some years vintage or other,
excepting the lawyer who appeared for
the defendant. This gentleman had a
| tall 'stove-pipe'' hat, which was genu-
inc curiosity in those parts. The law
| yer was quite conscious of the interest
excited by his appearance, and was
plug" hat, which was a part OF his
stock in trade for awning the uninitiat-
ed, was very ostentatiously brushed
and set on the mantelpiece. Then he
got out a couple OF lawbooks from his
saddlebags, and with spectacles astride
his nose he pondered over those books
like one waterlogged with deep
thoughts.
The defendant, Bob Timberlake. was
typical Saxon in appearance all but
his complexion. He was bis man,
yellow of beard and hair, and with
much evidence of locks and wbiskers.
His eyes were bright blue and his
nose was hooked like a hawks. He
had, in fact, the look of bewildered
birds of prey. He apparently did not
know whether he wanted to fight or
not. The squire was as impressive as
shock. of corn. He was an iron
| faced man with chin whiskers like
wire. He sat in the shadow of the
! statutes of.Iowa and asked odds of no
man. The audience shifted and whis-
| pered, and finally the solemn-visaged
lawyer announced that he was ready
to go on with the case. The prose.
cutting witness, together with a wag-
on load Of people, testified to the TACT
that on the previous Sunday at about
the hour of eight o'clock in the
morning, they were all going tc
church, and as they passed the Tim
berlake farm they saw Robert Tim
berlake blowing in the fields with
''cultivator.' The lawyer for Timber
to the well-known enmity existing be-
tween the house of McClanahan and
| that of Undertake, and then excused
them from the witness stand.
Then he put on the mail-carrier.
who testified that he had been
obliged to lay back a day with the
mail, and in consequence of that fact
had come by on Saturday instead OF
| Friday, as had been his custom for
| five years. The carrier further testi-
fed that he saw Timberlalle in the
field on that day and ''hollered' tC
him and tried to get him to come
over to the road. but the old man
jus hollered back and druv over the
ridge" Then Timberlake took the
chair and testified that he thought it
was Saturday when he got up in the
morning, for the reason that the mail
went by the day before. That he had
seen people going by on their way to
church. but that he had no notion of
what it meant. That he thought it
That he had an almanac in the house.
but that he had depended on the
mail-carrer for Sunday except when
his folks were at home. and then ''the
old woman" always hauled him out
for church. He did not deny the
crime. but he said that it was com
mitted under misrepresentation OF
the day.
The evidence all being in, the law
Yer. for the defense drew his author
tiles and started his speech. This was
really what the audience had been
waiting for, and they leaned forward
and drunk in every word of the dis
course. 1t was simply an elaborate and
vivisecting exposition of the character
&c ri
was really artistic. He read from
his books, and he likened the COM
planning witness 10 Judas, the Phari-
sees, to Nero, a jay-bird and a yellow
dog. John had never heard anything
like, it in his lite. He scared into
the regions of American liberty with
a roar like the wind in the ''big
woods" and he let his voice drip down
in the valleys of pathos as SOFT as a
turtle dove cooling to his mate. He
ridiculed the idea that McClanahan
was actuated by any other motive than
petty revenge, and made a very pretty
figure about the Lord in the fields on
a Sabbath day. McClanahan s1uirmed
and redeemed and clinched mis- fists
under the TRADE. Old man Timber
lake, on the other hand, bean1ed and
glowed and smiled and chucl1led as
the speech progressed, and when it
ended with thunder burst of several
syllabled abuse, he was the happiest
man in the room.
The justice never quivered during
the argument. His decision he rem
dered immediately. He said that Mr..
Timberlake didn't deny working on
Sunday; that he had known him for
upward of 20 years; that he knew
Mr.. Timberlalze had honestly made a
mistake. But that didn't alter the
fact. Under the law, and he was
bound by the law, it Nvas his duty
to judge facts only, and let the bark
fall where it might. He would i'm
pose a. fine of five. dollars. Old Bob
paid it,. and then went into a corner
and paid his lawyer. He was, Still
smiling when heleft. andashook hands
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