Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-16

pat with him. I sentenced Bill Wheel or to six months in Jail for allowing himself to be robbed in that manner and told Tom 10 go and sin no more I didn't contend it was law, but jes tice. It was jestlce to the record tn. west has made and is seeking to up hold. He went or to jail, but got q shyster lawyer 10 appeal his case, and the higher court has reversed 1t on me. nm directed 10 give him a new trial. Am going to do it? The man among you who thinks so don't know Jcdge Hoke. Jedge Hoke can resign, but he can't be driv. He may be here to uphold the law, but he's also here as the guardian of the rights of man He'll ladle out law when he thinks law will hit the case in ,hand; when he don't think so he'll ladle out jestice.
 Tom Stokes, you can walk out as before, and if I was you I'd hit an. other climate for awhile. Bill Wheel. There will be no new trial for you. You will have to pass through a crowd outside and if you dont like the re- marks and other things hurled at you as you go no one is to blame but your. self Sandy Bend won't never nestle up to you ag'in, and my advice to you is to keep away from here in the flu ture.
 We have one other case on the docket. It is Poke Smith versus Fong Lee Poke has never been classed as a bad man. Most of us have sized him up as critter that wouldn't fight un- less he had to and would then shed a bar'l of blood. He has always carried guns, but he had no notches cut in the stocks as tally marks. Nobody cared to elbow him, and nobody took him for a parson. My own private opinion was that he'd show sand if the time ever came.
 Poke Badly Used Up.
 Well, the time came yesterday. He had shirt up in Fong Lees laundry. He went up to get 1t, and there was some dispute about the quantity of gravel stones and burs that had been clubbed out of it previous to washing; also as to whether Fong wasn't re- sponsible for some of the new rips and holes. At any rate, Poke started to take the shirt away without paying anything. and there was row. Poke had his guns. 1 don't claim that he should have done any shooting, but do contend that he ought to have used them to get out of Che affair with dig nity. Did he do so? When his yells had drawn crowd he was found buried under a heap of unwashed shirts, and Fong Lee had them shoot ing irons in bis possession and has got them yet. As soon as Poke could dig his way out he hustled down to the Red Dog and me and hollered for jes t!ce. Didn't want to go back with the gun I offered to lend him and have 1t out with the heather, but Jest wanted jestice.
 When jestice Is demanded in this
 
 Fong Lee $2 and costs for having a pair of squint eyes on him, and he can keep the two guns and the shirt he took away from the plaintiff. Poke Smith is free to walk out and show himself to his friends around town, and if he isn't patted on the back and called q hero maybe he can figure out why.
 Don't let it go out that this court either favors the Chinaman or Is op- posed to him What this court favors is man getting his clean shirt when he goes after It. and if he hasn't the sand to do it it's simply a question of what they calls lapsus linkum, and the Chinese have nothing to do with it. That's all. Courts adjourned"
 NJ. QUAD