Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-01
CAN TELL lies.
But the Truth Hard to be Gotten
Out Of Them.
AN OLD LAWYERS STORY.
Many Instances Where Clients Rather Than
Toll Tho Truth Favor Their Opponents.
But tho Majority Of Them Lie 10 Better
Their Own Side Of Tho Case and OocoIIe
Their Counsel.

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Their Counsel.
"One would imagine said a lawyer,
! that a sane man who hired a lawyer
| to conduct a suit for him would tell
his adviser the exact truth about the
case. Long experience has taught me
that the truth telling client is almost
exceptional and that the average hu.
man being is incapable Of stating the
| exact truth in a matter that involves
| his personal interest Usually he ia.
| yors himself though / have known in.
stances where, I'm trying to be fair, he
! overdid it and favored his opponent.
Some Of these clients practice will.
! 'ul deception, others are self-deceived
A case in point was that Of a very re.
spectacle business man, who was a
! church member. He was on a trolley
! car that was rammed by another car,
and was injured, His was an abso.
! lutely good case and any jury i'm the
! land would have given him $4,000 or
| $4,000 if he held to the truth But he
told us that all the physical ills that
I he had were due to that collision, and
we knew better.
,,hy, Mr. j.. we said. you fell
| from a load Of hay and injured your
hips In 1858 and you were hurt in a
ear accident I'm 1894
Yes he replied, but I had got all
over those hurts
You were lame, you walked with a
| cane at the time of this last accident,
YOUR neighbors will testify to that
mo, no; / did have a cane for a
lime, but before this last accident hap
lened all the ameness was gone and
7 was as supple and as smart as a man
If 20 years
Now, look here. Mr. j., that
won't do. If you try that story on a
fury they'll give a verdict against you.
They'll believe your whole case is
wrong Wen retire from this matter
lnless you agree to tell what we know
is the truth-that some Of your in
iuries remained from the old accidents
but this new one aggravated them. d"
He argued and fought, but finally
promised to testify as we told him, and
on the day Of trial we put him on the
witness stand, To our disgust he went
right back to his old story, which was
so manifestly false that the jury found
against him. Yet, to this very day he
will argue that his absurd fiction was
true.
Another case which had some sim
liar features was that Of a spinster who
had a valid claim for injuries against
q railroad company She was getting
On a car which suddenly started throw
ing her to the street There were hon
est injuries and she should have won
the suit but she could not tell the
truth. She was of a hysterical ten
dency and the accident increased this
to such an extent that she developed
2 hysterical kuee-that is a knee which
hvsteria made her say and believe was
IMPAIRED She walked lame and fa-
vored the knee even unconsciously. She
insisted that there was n lack Of sem
sation and partial paralysis. We had
experts examine her, but they found
no injury no Inflammation or swelling
and were convinced that the injury was
purely imaginary.
"She also had imaginary trouble
with her eyes, limiting the field of Wis
ion and weakening them tn such an eX-
tent that she was compelled to wear
glasses We had two experts examine
her eyes with instruments and they
found them to be absolutely normal
We were afraid that she would kill her
ease with imaginary injuries, So We
told her that we wera convinced that
her eyes were all right and her knee
also. She was angry.
~ wear glasses now she said; i
Ia 60, hn a.
cident.
"I pointed out that anybody could
wear glasses. but she insisted that no
matter what the doctors said she did
have the great injury she alleged.
At the trial she made matters worse
by reyerting to her injuries I'm answer.
ing each Question that was asked her
1fter This fashion:
What part Of the car were you in"
"T was I'm the last seat on the left
hand side and since that time I have
00t been able to see to read without
yloeees.'
owe expected 10 he beaten, but
rettloment was offered and so we got
,ut Of the matter better than we
honed
"a very pretty girl came to MS one
ime with a claim against the elevated
road. AS she was getting on a train
II started and she was thrown between
wo cars. II was a great wonder that
he was not killed She alleged she
had received serious injuries, and we
Investigated and found that the acct
lent had occurred as she stated. So
we BEGAN suit.
After little time we discovered
hot she had been deceiviCg MS. and
ralling her to my Office I accused her
# It.
"You have he'd suits AGAINST rail.
road companies before ] said.
Only twice before she answered.
land you have not given us your
real name
That's the name ] 20 by
"NJell. / shall discontinue the case
Don't you believe / had the acci
1eutY
Yes but not the injuries
"'Well wouldn't they give me a lit
tie somethingT
! NO
"'All right she concluded, and walk
cd away apparently quite contented.
"Clients like these are likely TO get
a lawyer into very serious trouble be
cause no one believes him when he
saws that he has been deceived"
W" will smoke no other after package o.
Caroline Brights.
Jacksonville Rebuilding.