Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-04-03
o. : sEssi'I LES THEY GET.
LAWYERS 90 NOT ALWAYS RECEIVE
CASH FoR THEIR SERVICES.
Country Produce Squared One Case,
a Souvenir Spoon Another and a
warherwonsn Paid Her Divorce
! Coats In Laundry Work.

Coats In Laundry Work.
Even old lawyers do not always get
cash fees, and the stories of queer fees
that have been paid to Milwaukee law
gers alone weald ell q volume. Bur.
glars loot, farm produce, labor of all de
scriptlons. almost everything imaginable.
would appear on tho list
The story of fee told by one young
lawyer is one of the kind where lawyer
does not like to have his name mentioned,
but 1t probably wasn't his fault. A visit
or was In the bachelors den of the young
lawyer, when he noticed an engraved
spoon hanging by ribbon among some
photographs, as though it might be
relic of some sentimental eollegian's love
affair.
THAT spoon is my fee for clearing a
client one time" said the owner Of the
decoration. 81 had that given to me aft
er defended old Bill Bradley, the bur
glar. Bradley had been arrested charged
with having robbed house In the fash
ionable part of the town, and among 9th
er things 1t was charged that he had
made away with q set of silverware. he
sent for me and from the way he told his
story / thought he was right and had not
mixed up IN the burglary.
"Well, he told me be had no money but
said he would make it all right with me
some day If I did get him out Of bis
trouble, SO / went in and worked hard.
and finally cleared him. A few days aft
er be had thanked me and had gone clear,
without paying me, he drifted into my
Office and said he had been trying to
scrape up some money for me, but
couldn't. Then he reached in his pocket
and gave me that spoon, one Of the set
had just acquitted him of stealing. II
took the spoon back, I would convict my
self of having defended a man l knew to
be guilty, SO left 1t there where you can
see 1t. / think something of 1t, too, espe-
cially as old Bill was killed while steal
ing ride toward Chicago a few days
afterward."
When / was practicing up north"
said Judge W. n. Halsey. II had q fee
10 kind that I appreciated as much as
] have $500 fees at other times. had
defended an old farmer in small suit,
though / did not expect to get any pay
from him. The suit was decided in our
favor, and the old farmer and his wife
went home. Some months afterward the
Ngo came into my Office with a package
and bundle tied up in handkerchief.
The package was q roll OF butter, the
handkerchief bundle was hazelnuts, and
from the old farmers pockets came two
big rosy checked apples. That butter,
apples and nuts fee was as satisfactory
to me as any / ever received"
''For ten years have never paid to
have an umbrella mended,' said one law
yer. 1.-The rich landlord of the story
book style wanted the store the old Grip
pied umbrella man was using for shop
and started to force the old fellow out
! fixed him SO that he was allowed to
stay, and ever since that l nave taken
my rain shields 10 nun Tor tree nenaihs.
That was all the fee received Tor that
ease too.
had the se@ets or my own iooge
onered 10 me as payment Tor service,
said one attorney, VINO Deiongs 70 Severn
secfet oraers. was s'lting IN ny %.
- one uas "nsn $3.50 I. uar h,,s-
=, =, 49,, 1Mu sha ras hnt recon,fr mar
'ir,j was 4 member Of a secret society.
az think It's perfectly horrid Of him,
co. she said, to have secrets and not
o tell them TO me. When he married me, !
ne said he would share everything with
me, and the hrst tnlng l ASK almost No
won 40. Gam you make nim
asked ner 10 what iodee ne peiong-
e, ana sne toia mo the name OF an Or
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LEW,
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that ! uiu accep.' salu ano.ne. a.'o, y,
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