The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-22
WILL PUSH
WORK OF COURT
Judge Scofield Will Hurry
Trial or Cases.
TAKES PLACE ON THE BENCH
Famous Smile Follows Him
to Court.
Nearly All Attorneys a tl,e Local Bar
Present to Hear the Heart to Heart
Talk and TO oner CongratuIation ms
Upon His Success.

Few, IL any. of the forty or more
attorneys of the Marion County bar,
and practically all Of them were
theer, will forget the moment when
Smiling Billy" Sconeld ascended the
common pleas bench and occupied
for the first time, the chair so well
filled by the late SuGge Boston G
Young. 1t may be contempt of court
to refer to his honor as Smiling
BLY," but anyone who could have
seen him in his first few moments as
o. Judge presiding over court,
might be sure that he would not be
called upon to show cause. Perhaps
It's the Scofeld smile that impresses
one. Ii was there in all its glory
today. II is probably not the smile
that attracts one to Judge Scofleld
so much as the knowledge of the
eminent fitness of the man behind
that smile.
And Judge Sconeld made one OF
those talks for which he Is famous.
One of the heart to heart kind and
each one of the many assembled in
the court room was made to feel that
that Judge Scofleld was talking right
TO him.
It was not without a slight trace of
embarrassment that Judge Scoheld as.
cended to the place Of his late friend
He looked about and smiled-and
that smile seemed to warm up the
whole rom that hight have been most
solemn. Judge Scofield said that he
did not know of any new rules that
we're to govern practice in the local
court. JIe referred to his own prac-
tice and said that I'm n way ne could
see where he had been negligent In
bringing his cases up for trial. He
knew that II was the way with most
LAWYERS and said that ii caused clients
tc become more or less dissatisfied,
and that most of all, It made the rev.
enue drou into the pox much more
slowly. The attorneys were told that
Judge Scofeld will be willing to CO.
operate with them in getting rid OF
old cases on the docket and in bring.
ing others to q speedy conclusion.
The Judge in conclusion said that
he realized that often attorneys and
clients would rather have some 9th
er Judge hear their eases and preside
over jury trials. He made 1t emphat
ic in that nice way OF his, that III
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feel free to make their feeling
known to him at such times and tina
he would gladly see that some othe
Judge would sit in the case and M
offense would be taken.
For the first time since his appoint
ment, William T.. Scofeld, Judge o
the common pleas court, today occu
pied the bench in the court of com
mon pleas. Judge Scofield heard tn
divorce case of Arthur l.. Woo
against Sarah T.. Wood, in which tn
. plaintiff was represented by Attorne
b. Fred l.. Carhart. The court grant
: ed the plaintiff divorce. He testi
fed that after their marriage his wifi
was careless housekeeper, FIRE
. auently staying away from home un
3 til after meal times and forcing hin
to cook his own meals. She ais
[ neglected their child. She left tw,
: years ago and is now living in Col
, orado, where the daughter has sine
married.
Judge Scofeld assigned the Grim
3 inal cases for trial early in October
/. Arrangements were made to brlni
{ the prisoners indicted by the Septem
/ ber grand jury into court Saturda!
,, to arraign them. The dates OF thel
trials will then be set.
The following assignment was made
State against Lorlng J. Smith, EN-
bezzlement, Oct. IA; State agains
state against Charles II. Hole, EN-
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