The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1911-06-17
Tones Banner Year

II The Tome School for Boys has had a
II remarkable athletic year Starting with
II the football season, with only, two men
from the year before and having only
green material with which to work
i Tome turned out football team of
which it may well be proud. While Tome
iost the game with the Hill School, which
mad an old and experienced team, il
played the Lawrenceville team a tie.
This team defeated LawrenceviIle the
year before with big score, II to O..
rome also took sweet revenge on the
Swarthmore Preparatory School, which
had been the victor the year before.
! The Tome track team has done the
just what happened from start TO nnlsn
and to hear him tell it you might sup
pose that the argument lasted not less
than three-quarters of an hour when
Uncle Jim Trimble comes in from Main
street and approaches him with no more
sense of Importance than Grant had
when he faced Lee at Appomattox.
Mr.. Finkley turns a little pale when
he hears the words, against the peace
and dignity of the people of the state"
but he RECEIVERS himself and after brief
Il must see my lawyer"
Certain corporation officers did the
same when their company was fined $685.,
600, but they never looked as serious
about it as Mr.. Finkley did as he went
over to pull Mordecai Weaver out of
pin pool game and unload upon him the
crushing responsibility of the case"
The small cubical building back of the
postoffce is trying to repeat the perfor-
nance of the Black Hole of Calcutta,
with tobacco smoke added.
Squire Hibben, looking like eight dig
nitaries of the Hague Tribunal con-
densed into one, sits behind the Revised
Statutes and looks about him with
gla ed and impartial eye.
Twelve jurors, each trying to sit on
his shoulder blades, listen, while Tom
Jimmson tells of murderous threats and
hom!cidal gestures.
Then Homer Finkley goes on the stand
and tells how he met Mr.. Jimmison,
whom he has known for years, and spoke
pleasantly to him. In the course of their
conversation he referred to the incident
of the dog, yet never did he overlook the
luminous fact that he (Mr. Finkley) was
a gentleman"
Mr.. Buskirk addresses the jury He
begins with the firing of the first gun at
Lexington and works up to the heinous
attack on the character of mis- snow
white client, and, although he doesn't
say SO, be seems TO favor the death pea
atty.
Mr.. Weaver follows and, without com
ing down to precise details, suggests
that Mr.. Jammison has at some time or
other poisoned a we'll, stole the tomb
stone from his mothers grave and pawn
ed it for drink money, to say nothing OF
striking a crippled child in tire head
with dull Az
After the arguments, Chief Justice
Hibben nstructs the jury. He says it's
"a serious charge The jury is to be gov
erned by the law and the evidence. He
doesn't say that the defendant will have
to pay jury fees if found guilty, because
the twelve good men and true have been
sitting there for an hour figuring on
what they would do with the money.
Mr. Finkley is guilty. Everyone in
town, except Mr.. Finkley, has known that
since early morning. He is bound over
to keep the peace. He pays for bond.
He pays fine. He pays his lawyer. Re
pays the Court. He pays the constable.
He pays the jury.
Getting out of justice court is like
getting out of a New York hotel.
That same afternoon sees Uncle Jim
Trimble going down to the grain eleva
tor with folded paper in his hand.
He is on his way to arrest Mr.. Thomas
Jimmison The plaintiff is Mr.. Homer
Finkley, who charges that Mr.. Jommi-
son, by attacking his dog, indirectly pro-.
voked an assault.
is Mr. Jammison guilty?
He is.