Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-07-05
general clawing or Of headgear com
smenced. A llsltta men.t-hara wore soft

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generai clawing or OF headgear com
fmenced. All the men there wore soft
hats Of some years win tage or other,
excepting the laWy er who appearedfor
the defendant. s. This gentleman had a
| tall "stove-pipe" hat, which was a genu-
inc curiosity in those parts. The law
Yer was quite conscious Of the interest
excited by his. appearance, and was
gravely making, the most Of it. The
plug" hat, which was part Of his
stock in trade for awing the uninitiat-
ed, was very ostentatiously brushed
and set on the mantelpiece. Then he
got out a couple Of lawboolSs from his
saddlebags, and with spectacles astride
his noseshe 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 a 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 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 impassive, as
a shock. of corn. He was an iron
faced man with chin whiskers like
wire. He sat in the shadow of the
statutes ofIowa 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 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 We're all going tc
berlake farm they saw Robert Tim
berlalSe blowing in the fields with a
''cultivator.' The lawyer for Timber
lake merely cross-eNamined them as
to the well-known enmity existing be-
tween the house of McClanahan and
that of Timberlake, 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 Timberlake 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
must be some picnic Or something.
That he had an almanac in the house,
but that he had depended on the
mail-carrier 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 misapprehension 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. It was simply an elaborate and
vivisecting exposition of the character
of Samuel McClanahan AS such it
was really artistic. He read from
his books, and he likened the COM
planning witness to Judas, the Phari-
sees, to Nero, 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
roar like the wind in the ''bi9
woods" and he let his voice drip down
in the valleys of pathos as soft as q,
turtle dove cooling to his mate. He
ridiculed the idea that McCl;lnahaD
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. McClanahani stluirmed
and Redeemed and clinched his fists
under the TRADE. Old man Timber
lake, on the other hand, bean1ed and
glowed and smiled and chuckled as
the. speech progressed, and when it
ended with a thunder burst of several,
syllabled a buse, &he was the happiests
man in the room
The justice; never quivered during
the argument. His decision he rem
sdered 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.. Undertake had honestly made
mistake. But that didn't alter the
fact. Under the. law, and he was.
bound blythe law, it was his duty,
to judge facts only, and let the bark
fall wheresita might He would i'm
pose a3sfines Of five dollars. Old Bob
paid it. and then went into. a corner
and .paidihis &lawy er. He was Still
smiling when he left, and shook hands
I. scll.s$s 49,