The daily sentinel., 1906-04-27
AND THEY MINED.
Attorneys and Sherin'c Officers get
Together and Records in
Fist Fighting and
Wrestling Given

A farce Tragedy with prize fight
trimmings.
Scene-Police court room.
Time.-11:3O O'Clock this morn
ing
DRAMATIS PERsoNAE.
Presiding judge of the police court
Joseph p. sweeney
Attorney n. e, Coles-Star.
Attorney 5. NJ, Logan -Co-star.
Attorney Barney welsh-Leading
Man.
'Undersherin Hardy-oppOsing
leading man.
Deputy SheriT Knowles-Cotop-
posing leading man.
Attorney Greer-Semi- participant.
stenographer, court officers, prison
er spectators.
SYNOPSIS
Uncertain and unrecorded. The
plot is original. and the story is not
not as permeated with heart inter
est as it is with head and fist interest.
In another column in today's issue
is chronicled an account of the Jen-
sen-Stevenson burglary case which
was on trial in Judge Sweney's court
this morning, particular stress be-
ing laid upon the interest developed
among the attorneys inthe case.
Well, that interest grew to serious
proportions and took on a tragic air
For an hour or more this morning
Attorneys Logan and Welsh for the
defense and Greer and Coles for the
prosecution had an interwrangling
over various questions and at sever
al times the arguments got owe. the
danger line. About hah ,asI eicyen
O'Clock ii seems that Attorney Logan
was arguing some question and spoke
about the other side FISHING for
something" Attorney Coles inter1
rupted and stated thar if his side
were fishing for bull heads they
would throw their line toward Atty.
Logan. The latter gentleman took
serious exception to this statement
and proceeded to call the opposing
counsel down pretty heavily. Words
rolled mountain high and suddenly
blow was struck and scene such
as rivaled a fight of the Gladiators
in Nero's time followed. II seoms
that while Logan was standing in
front of Coles Undersheriff Hardy
made'a move toward Logan and thus
started the row. Attorney Welsh
sheriff's officers. Hardy and Knowles
and the attorneys went at IL in
earnest At one time two of the par
ticipants an attorney and sheriff s
officer were down on the floor be-
1aboring each other over the head
court raped and raped for
order but the stuggle kept up and
the spectators sat back and enjoyed
the sport. Attorney Greer attempt
ed to pull one or two of the leading
participants out of the tangle by
the legs but failed. A spectator step
ped in but forgot to take OFF his hat
and the undersheriff stopped long
enough to grabb the spectators hand
and yell courts in session take OF
your hat" However the actions OF
the sherin's officers and the attor-
neys would not lead one to think
that court was in session. II any of
the participants were observing that
court was in session II was not not
iceable.
Finally there was a cessation in
hostilities and the spectators pro
nounced the fight a draw. No one
was seriously hurt though nearly
every principal In the row had a col
lection of bruises scattered over his
anatomy. Excitement reigned SUI
preme for few moments then Judge
sweeney administered severe re-
buke and ordered that the trial pro
ceed.
Had the judge handed out fines for
contempt to all hands It is not prob
able that his action would have been
questioned by anyone outside Of those
directly Interested.
II Is said that minister in the
crowd of spectators arose and told
the gentlemen It might be well foi
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