The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-07
Washburn WOuld-Be Lawyers
Hold a Mock Trial.
Give an Excellent and Amusing
Entertainments.
CONVICTED OF ARSON.
The Jury Is Out Only Three
Minutes.
a. w. Dana Presides With
Judicial Dignity.

After being out less than three min
dtes the jury in the Wasnburn law
school mock case of the state of Kan
sas against Jonathan Carlton (Hugh
McFarland) which was tried in the dis
trict court room at the court house last
night returned verdict of guilty in
the third degree. Justice Henry
+. Mason of the supreme court was
foreman of the jury and took his in
structiOns in the points of the law
from A. W. Dana, Republican nominee
Tor judge of the district court, who
will not put on the ermine in case of
his election until next January and
who IVA stried on the dog last night.
Other distinguished members of the
jury were Bennett A Wheeler, Harry
sSCandrett of the Union Pacific law de-
partment, L. H. Greenwood and Pro-
lessor George Barlow Penny. John Wa
tiers was called but was challenged for
cause by the defense and was excused
Professor Penny was called in his place.
The jury's verdict reached on the
nrst ballot, was a triumph for r. b.
Gilluly and Ralph Cav. the prosecuting
attorneys. The attorneys fOr the de-
Tense were John Dawson and E. r.
Simon The attorneys are all bona fide
lawyers and have been admitted to
the bar although they are taking post
graduate courses in the Washburn law
school. Ralph Cav is official reporter
Of the district court; John Dawson is
chief clerk in the offlce OF the attorney
general and E. r. Simon is Chief jus
tice JohnstOn's stenOgrapher.
Excepting the judge and part of the
jury the rest of the caste" We're all
Washburn law students. The trial sug-
gested an amateur play but was eX-
ceedfngly we'll done. Each actor enter
ed fully into the spirit of his part and
the portrayal throughout was so re-
alistic that it was difficult for the au-
dfence to remember that they were only
play acting and that Hugh McFar-
land was not really on trial for setting
fire to a barn. The only thing to mar
the perfect realism of the trial was the
perfection of the testimony which was
entirely too direct and straightforward
for amateurs but if this detracted from
the histrionic quality of the perform
ance it added to its merits from the
standpoint of the law school because all
the witnesses are embryonic lawyers
and the mock trial last night proved
their familiarity with legal proceedings
and the excellence of the foundation
which their first year in the Washburn
school of law has given them.
Mrs Lee Monroe, who is lawyer and
lawyers wife, and is doing some special
work in the Washburn law school, was
was the hit of the evening. She PLAYED
the part of the mother of the defendant
ana her makeup was excellent. Among
other things brought out in her testimony
which was in support of an alibi theory,
was that on the night her son was sup
posed to have set fire to the barn, she en-
tered his room and found him kneeling be
side his bed saying his prayers. It was
fully five minutes after Mrs. Monroe made
this statement before quiet could be
stored in the court room.
Miss Anna Marie Nellis and Miss Maud
Bates We're witnesses respectively for the
prosecution and the DEFENSE These Young
women. the former teacher Of German in
The Topeka high school, have been
attending the lectures in the law
school this winter. Miss Nellis
was bewitching in her black bonnet
and veil. Jim Stewart, another witness
Afrav7 Mo g
physician and his assumption of the calm.
professional manner probably modelled
was very amusing. J. S. Twyford. an
other freshman law in the role of AL
displayed unusual ability in impersona-
ton. His testimony, that of an ignorant
farm hand furnished almost the only
Iun of the evening on cross-exa nination;
Most of the witnesses being lawyers
themselves and onto the tricks of the
trade, We're too foxy for the examining
attorneys, but Twyford assumed the air
and department of the smart aleck'
witness, VINO Is determined not to let any
of these lawyer fellers" rattle him and
his fencing on denomination with the
prosecuting attorney, was eNcltingly re-
The other law students taking part in
the trial were Lew Graham, as Richard
Eidenour the prosecuting. witness; D. n
Taylor. as J. A. September, and R. A.
Maxwell as ]. G. Silverberg a travelling
salesman for a clothing firm. Ben Scan
drett acted as clerk of the court, u. 5.
Badders as official reporter, and c. b
Dodge as bailiff. There was a large audi
ence filling the court room, members of
the Washburn law school faculty and
friends of the student actors Among
others Justice and Mrs. Mason, Mrs. a.
w. Dana, Bennett r. Wheeler, Miss
Wheeler. Miss Eleanor Wheeler, Mrs. D.
/. Lakin, Miss Mary Lakin, Mrs. J. NJ.
Meade Miss Bess Meade, Mrs. Curry, Mr.
Ed Curry, Mr. John Waters, Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo Barlow Penny, Mrs. Barbour Walker,
Miss Hobart, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Valen-
tine, D. w. Nellis, Archie Williams, Miss
Helen Walker Harry Bowen, James Nc
CURE Mrs. d g. Nellis, Mrs. Fred Dg-
lis, Mrs: Thomas Kelly, Miss Hazel KEEL
~, Justice A. L. Greene, H. G.. Larimer,
George Hackney, Judge A J. McCabe,
VIII Stewart, Mrs. A H. Bates. Mrs. n.
+. Handy, Miss Bessie Bates. Miss Mary
Harrison, Miss Cowgirl, Mrs. F. NJ. Pres
colt. Miss Pearlade Prescott, Miss Lola
Graham. Miss Effie Graham. Miss Clug-
ston, Miss Nanon Heron and Miss Clara
CrUmb.
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