Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-07
.OONS CAP AND BELLS
Justice Also Slips the Bandage
From Her Eyes.
CHAPLIN BROWN, DEFENDANT
Called on to Plead to Breach OF
Promise Action.
TRIAL AT FOUNDRY CHURCH
Justice Gould Presides and Lays
Down the Law in Remark
able Manner.

hUA0 1AdAACAs
Justice slipped the bandage from her
eyes, laid aside the sword and scales ana
donned cap and bells last evening. FOR the
Supreme Court of All the World was IN
session in a han of Foundry Nj. E. Church
and a numerically large audience was on
hand to witness the trial of the breach Oh
promise suit of Jerusha Rugg Perkins
against Chaplin Brown.
The defendant was disguised only by
hang-dog expression and all embarrassed
flush, while the plaintiff, Miss Jean Trace
well. daughter of Controller Tracewell, VINO
answered to the name of the aforesaid Je-
rusha Rugg Perkins, wore a Paisley shawi
and horticulturally ornate bonnet OF tne
vintage of 1852.
Missed True Vocation.
Justice Gould of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia presided and II pe-
came apparent before the opening argu-
ments were concluded that he had missed
his true vocation by about mile. Inc
Judge is considered to be pretty fair Jur-
list. but he VIC uld have made a bang-up IN
teriocutor or end man. His charge to the
ow-browed Jury of prominent citizens. dur
ing which he admonished them to make up
their minds regardless of the testimony tne
evidence the arguments or the facts IN the
case, was considered by the many lawyers
present to be a model of judicial fairness.
Col A V. Newton of Worcester. Mass,
was the attorney for the plaintiff. and II is
not too much to say that If every dis-
tressed female had the colonel for counsel
the annual alimony budget of the United
States would make the cash value OF the
wheat crop look like the Russian treasury
balance. The suit, civil action, was Tor
90 10 C0I rod n
the sympathies of the jury that Chaplin
Browne was sentenced to surrender all his
assets and to hand over every cent on his
person to the fair plaintiff. At last accounts
the court officers were still searching the
defendant.
Succumbed to Feminine Charms
Former United States Attorney Henry E.
Davis was the attorney for the defense, and
he made a grand legal fight against big
odds. The evidence, the facts and the testi-
mony were all with him, but Jerusha Rugg
let her lamps rest on the judge and jury
every now and then, so it was all over but
the verdict.
S. McComas Hawken was the clerk Of the
court, William B. Robson the court officer,
and James H. Cathel the crier. The wit
nesses included Miss Jane Randolph Young,
who was transformed by three wells, a won,y
derful hat and a yearning heart into Miss
Jerusha Ray Perkins, niece of the plaintiff,
engaged to the defendant; Miss Katie
Young, Dr. L. L. Frederick, Edwin C.
Brandenburg and Alonzo Tweedale.
i Other Cases Set Aside. :
There were several cases on the court
docket, but Justice Gould set them aside for
one reason or another.
Call the docket" the justice directed,
after Crier Cathell had finished bawling the
"Oyez, Oyer" etcN
THE people of the northwest section of
Washington against George H. Harries,"
the clerk announced, Ito compel the de-
PENDANT to run cars on the Connecticut
avenue and F street lines within thirty
minutes of one another.
Hopeless the justice remarked with a
shake of his head
The United States against Henry B. F.
Mcfarland the clerk then read, the
cused being charged with having eaten all
the oysters in a church social stew
This case is dismissed Justice Gould
declared sternly, ION the ground that the
defendant never stopped talking long
enough to eat an oyster stew
Perkins Against Brown Ready.
Then the case of Perkins against Brown
was called and Attorney Davis announced
that as counsel for the defense he was
ready to proceed.
Il am glad to note that for the first time
in thirty-seven years., the justice COM
mented, that Mr.. Davis is ready to proceed
with a case.
Mr. Davis then demanded trial by jury,
and the clerk called the names Of the panel.
Grover Cleveland" he said, and a large
person closely resembling James F. Oyster
stepped into the jury box. William V. COX
answered to the name of David B. Hill and
confirmed the rumor that he was demo-
crat; Thomas c. Noyes responded to the
call for Chauncey NJ. Depew, but asserted
that he is not a peach but plum, and
Clarence F. Norment, who responded to the
call for John D. Rockefeller, admitted that
he had some of the tainted with him.
Money Seemed to Talk.
I'D like to see you outside after the
trial, Mr.. Rockefeller" said Justice Gould,
in an aside.
Thomas w. Smith stepped forward when
]. Pierpont Morgan was called, and w.
Riley Decide, as John L. Sullivan declined
to say Just when he last fell off the water
wagon. William T. Galliher, Arthur A. Biz
ney. William E. Fuller, Adds B. Browne
and A. Leftwitch Sinclair stepped forward
when the names of Joseph W. Babcock,
Alton B. Parker, Joseph G. Cannon, Ad-
miral Dewey and Charles j. Bonaparte were
mentioned. The latter admitted that he had
no conscience and no scruples.
After the opening address to the jury
by Col. Newton, the plaintiff took the
stand and told her story. In brief, she
said that she conducted Doaralng mousse
Paradise, and that while walking along that
thoroughfare one evening she was pursued
nv a ferocious animal, afterward discovered
to be a Teddy bear, and tainted In the
arms of Chaplin Brown.
Often Visited Perkins Paradise.
Following that evening the defendant often
visited Perkins Paradise. His visits usually
occurred about meal time. and when there
was anything particularly good to eat the
defendant always had been demonstratively
affectionate. He had paid the plaintiff
many compliments. but SO far as she knew
had never paid anything else. During the
testimony Of succeeding witnesses for the
plaintiff, Attorney Davis noted seven ex-
ceptions to the presiding Judge and the
| plaintiff holding hands. Mr.. Davis also
rotod ON axcantfan when Insffce Gould