The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-05
COURT PRACTICE IN MISSOURI
Some Odd Things That Surprised an
Old Lawyer From Chicago.
(Chicago Inter Ocean.l

There are many things IN the legal
methods in vogue in Missouri TO cause
a Chicago lawyer to open his eyes with
establishment" said a Chicago attorney
who has recently returned from that
state. Il was down there trying a case
q. week or so ago The title 70 valu-
able mining land was involved. and the
trial was held at Canton. Lewis cOun-
ty That is pretty near the border line,
and during the war times and for many
years after it was known as a hot-bed
OF. secession. The most striking thing
about the county now is the abundance
Of gray-haired and gFay-whiskered
Johnny Rebs who live there. Court, by
the way, opens there at s q. m.
After I had got through with the
examination of one Of the veniremen
called, and had accepted him, l turned
him over TO the other side for eXamina-
ton. The opposing counsel was a Iypi-
cal old confederate gray-haired, and
extremely courteous and punctilious in
his manner. He began his eXamina-
ton in this way:
You live at Eden, sab, I undah-
stand you to say?'
Yes, sir
" Walnut you postmastah, sab, at
Eden for some considerable periOdT
" Yes, sir; for twenty-five years
You font in the wah, sah?'
Yes, sir
ION which side, sah?'
THE Union side
" Did you know Colonel s. Daggs,
sab. of the confederate army?'
Yes, sir
Isn't it a fact sab, that you re-
fused 70 speak TO Colonel s. Daggs?
q" No, sir, I spoke to him every time
he came to the postofice.
Isn't 1t a fact, sab, that you did
not attend the funeral Of Colonel s.
DaggsT
I was sick
" 'Nevah mind, sab. Did you or did
you not attend the funeral Of Colonel
5. Daggs. sah?'
I did not
''The opposing counsel looked tri-
umphant as he turned 70 the judge and
said: Your hOnah, 1 object to this wit
ness on the ground Of prejudice
" objection sustained said the judge
and the venireman stepped down with
a rather sheepish expression.
This was the first I had heard Of
Daggs, and / was rather curious to
know more about him. I afteFward in
vestigated and found that Colonel s.
Daggs had been dead twenty-five years
THE next morning I was standing at
the court house door with the sherin
Of the county. waiting until it was time
for court to open. While I was there
a fine-looking man rode up. fastened
his horse, and came zap the steps. Good
morning, sheriff, he said, as he entered
the door.
The sheriff was leaning against the
side of the door with his hands in his
pockets and he never moved as he said:
Good mornin Cap'n Dsggs. Jest step
in the marshars Office there; he wants
to see you.
Gas Cap'n DaKgs walked toward the
marshal's room the sheriff Winked sol
EMMY at me and followed Daggs. /
accepted the wink as an invitation. and
followed the sheriff. No sooner had
Daggs entered the marshaFs room than
the latter went through him and took
away from him two guns almost as
long as my arm TN take care Of these
yere. Cap'n,' he said. carelessly, until
aftah cot adjOurns'
THAT was all there was to it. The
'Cap'n' looked q little foolish. bat the
marshal and the sheriff seemed to think
# was a matter Of course, and their
manner did not invite any question
ing"