Evening star., 1907-11-09

n tRING the r"cent trial of J. r.
Lipscomb, former policeman. for
alleged assault an incident oC-
CURED IN the Criminal Court which. ii IS
thought gave the defense a slight ad-
vantage. 1t at .nast showed that some
body on the side OF the defense was
lucky. and Attorney Campbell Darlington
was quick to take advantage Of it Dur
ing the progress of the trial the prosecu-
ton. represented by Assistant United
States Attorney Turner, was only too
glad TO ridicule the claim of the defense
that the policeman stumbled while pur-
suing the man who was shot ana tllit the
shot was accidentally fred.
Why should he have stumhled? Mr:
,ur,ar asked Almost an impossibiity.
IL bccaul. necessary for the prosecute
ing officer to walk over to the Judge
bench and before reaching the Judge ne
stumbled, the only thing keeping Hii'
from falling being the lack or space
There" " said Attorney tarrlngtoh' me
learned district attorney has STUN oieu'
and he can appreciate what happened on
the Conduit road the day that the poEce-
man stumbled.
Mr. Turner had TO admit thal ne h,'o
stumbled although two of the Jurors oe-
~iSra1 thav had not witnessed the incl
dent
And rhe failure of you two gentlemen
10 see it" the defendants 5 counsel argued
rs in line with the testimony in this case.
You were only a few feet away ana uidi
see II and the government witnesses VINO
1pera a hundred wards from Lipscomb safo
no I'D not stumble. If the jurors didn
see Mr. Turner stumble at such close
range. is Ii not possible that the w
nesSes who were so far away from LIP
scomb didn't see what happened?
There was no answer to his argument
and lipscOnb was acquitted
* y y x
Three well-known young men from this
r,ty went out on hunting trip recently
and. as they intended 10 make day or IT,
a ouart of nice, large oysters was taken
along for the MONDAY meal When noon
came the party made their way TO camp
with no game, and the one that had beSh
elected cook set about preparing the o4s-
ters for frying = 49,.
He had iust started to roll them IN the
cracker crumbs when one OF the others
butted in with the question:
well aren't you going 10 c.ean those
oysters? Or do you expect US to eat
them without being cleaned?
His companion Immediately got Wis
and backed up the first sp 7aker, declar-
ing that no oyster would pass MS lll,s
without first being cleaned Inc cpoh
looked up with mild surprise an ae-
cIared that he had never heard of oysters
hefne cleaned but il il was customary he
was willing to do so And he carefully
cleaned the oysters
Il
John Ware. colored. who was one or the
twenty-ona prisoners taken to the New
Jersey state prison from this city recent
IL, gained the sympathy of the jan olu-
risIs and others with whom he came In
contact while in custody. Johns father
was a West Indian minister, his mother
a full blood Cherokee Indian. ana the son
had never neglected to follow MS early
trafning Unfortunately for the young
man. he married widow. several years
his senior, who had children older than
himself The children naturally did no.
care To call John their father. he says,
and they always felt that their mother
should not have become the wife of the
young man.
But said John while on his way TO
the penitentiary to serve Two years TOT
bisamy Il always treated my wife right
and never harmed a hair in her head. and
when she wanted to get divorce she
said | had ill-treated her.
IF your wife got divorce, said Ar
thur Williams, colored. who was hand
cuffed to Ware. how could she nave
charged you with higamy?
Il thought she had been granted di-
vorce.'' Ware answered, but she hadn't.
You see | can't read or write. and when
| heard about the divorce business /
thought |
a man who always tried to do right, and
] got married becaus- l thought II wa
the right thing to do. man never has
a home unless he's married, and 1t was
not until after our baby was born that
l learned my Grst wife did not ct full
divorce
Now. You see said Williams. Il
don't believe in this marrying business
| believe in this ffnity bus ness. and
when l get tired of one l can get another
without being afraid of the law.
Il might do that. too" Ware said. but
I'm a God-feariug man. and l would be
afraid to live that way. My father and
mother taught me different "
so did mine" Interrupted T., illiams
but they have nothing t. do with what
| do m a thief hut they are not re-
sponsihIe for it. They taught me, all
right hut l got that sticky finger dis
ease when / was young. and It's a hard
thing TO break away from il. 1 admit that
I am Just naturally tn .ef. l am fond
Of high life, like the cards and dice and
booze hH- l was never drunk in my life.
If htI 500 in my pocket Ia show
cvegyl,udy a good time. and when l went
broke Ii steal. but tbs is my second
trip. and I'm going Ia Try 10 turn over a
new leaf"
War resumed his remarks telling his
f-liowtcouylct that n had never missed