Weekly journal-miner., 1911-05-10
JUDGE AND JURY TRY ID MOB
 DEFENDANT
Details Of Breach Of Promise Suit Are
 Becoming Public
WELL KNOWN PRESCOTT PEo, PILE TO BE CALLED BEFORE
 LOCAL COURT.
(From Saturdays Daily.)

IT lOhl CdIuANdN DdAAl
 "The whisper of a beautiful wo- man can be heard farther than the loudest call of duty.'
 Unreasonable as this may seem it is nevertheless true. Ask any lawyer if it is possible to get a jury to convict woman even though the evidence is all against her? And worse than that when the defendant is a beautiful woman the prosecuting attorneys life is in danger.
 A case of this sort has just come to light in Prescott and despite the strenuous efforts of the principals to keep the matter quiet the facts have leaked out. Owing to the social prominence and hitherto clean rec ords of the interested parties their names will be withheld. This is done at the request of the trial judge who fears that publicity will inter fere with the ends of justice.
 A well-knOwn club man has been sued for breach of promise by one of this seasons most charming de- butantes. By the employment of was impaneled and the ease well on its way before the plaintiff entered the court room.
 the exceptional beauty of the young lady-all of us know, "that words only caricature beautiful woman ''- and the effect of her charms upon the jury is the best endorsement of the oft repeated story, "that she is the most beautiful woman in the ] Southwest
 When she was sworn by the clerk she stood with her back to the jury box and it was only when she took her seat on the witness stand that the twelve had an opportunity to gaze on her fascinating features. The effect was wOnderful-every man put up his hand to re-arrange his neck tie, there was a concerted movement of them all as they strengthened up in their chairs. Twelve hands shot up to ten heads of hair -(numbers | 3 and II were hOpelessly bald) and hirsute adornmeIt which was of neg ligible value few moments before suddenly became more valuable than diamond tiara.
 The judge rapped sharply for or der-Or according to the defendant 's attorney-tO attract the attention of the smiling plaintiff to himself. Cries of "lynch him'' echoed from the jury box; the audience became unmanageable and threw the bailiff out of the room. ad it not been for the efforts of the defendants at torneys there is no question but that he would have been roughly handled. Ct is rumored that the cause of the defendant $ refusal to marry the young woman is due to the fact that he already has a wife living in Bos- ton).
 During this scene, which was most certainly a disgrace to our courts, his honor the judge proposed to the plaintiff and was, we believe, ae- cepted.
 Just what fate is in store for the defendant will not be made public until Wednesday night when the Mu- sic Section of the Monday Club will present the entire Operetta, "Trial by Jury" at the Elk Theater.
 The cast has already appeared in these columns. In addition to the above tuneful Operetta, which is one of the best written by Gilbert and Sullivan, the authors of Pima fore, etc.-the Lady of Shallot, by Wilfred Bendall, will be presented at the same time and by the same or ganiZation.