The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-03

| first. to drown the unsavory memory
| OF the lawyers firm In some warm wa
ter and brandy. and secondly. to con-
suit his own attorney. Mr.. Perker
MIR. Perker retained as pleader in
court that famous barrister Serjeant
Snubbin. concerning whom he uttered
the great praise that the profession
generally admitted that he led the
court by the nose. Dodson and Fogg
, retained that other great pleader.
Sergeant Buzfuz who was particularly
celebrated for bis talent for effect
He justified this fame on the morn
Ing of trial, for Mrs. Bardell and two
female friends were ushered into the
court room weeping. and Mrs. Bardell,
In hysterical imbecility, was heard to
ask. In broken tones but perfectly
audible to the jury. where che was.
Thereupon. Sergeant BuzfuE rubbed his
! own eyes very hard with a very large
handkerchief and looked patheticelly at
| the little fat Judge.
In q soft and melancholy voice Ser
jeant Buzfud told the Jury that the
plaintiff was widow, whoee husband,
| after enjoying for many years the es-
| TEEN and regard of his sovereign as
! one OF the guardians OF his royal rove
nues. slided imperceptlbly from the
world to seek elsewhere for that re-
| pose and peace which custom house
can never AFFORD.
The jury was impressed visibly by
| this beautiful picture, which was much
more poetical than would have been
the nero bald statement that Mr. Bar
dell had been knocked on the head
with Quart-pot in a public-house
| cellar.
The case went against Mr.. Pickwick
from that moment. When Serjeant
| Buzfuz reached the point where the
cd 1al Ha1
Apartments furnished for a single
gentleman" some of the jurymen took
notes of this touching Inscription and
were observed to look sternly at the
defendant.
Although Mrs. Bardell had no docu-
mentary evidence. the Serjeant did very
well with note that Mr.. Pickwick
once had written to her ordering chops
and tomato sauce for dinner This
letter, he told the jury With trembl-
Ing voice, too well portrayed the char
acter of the man. II was no open, fer
vent. eloquent ejistle, but a letter that
must be viewed with suspicious oyc,
| covert, sly, undetermined communion
tion, evidently designed by PickwIclS
to delude any third person into whose
| hands it might fall. He ended with a
beautiful perorntion which described
Mr.. Pickwick as the ruthless DESTROYER
| PtckwlclS OF Heartless Tomato Sauce,
| who reared his head with unblusnins
effrontery and gazed without sigh
on the ruin that he had made. Even
the Judge woke from one of his dozes
under the spell of the serjeant's ora
tory, and began making notes fuyi-
| ously with an empty PEN
Wien he called the defendants three
friends TO testify to the scene which
they had witnessed, they were SO anxi-
Gus to help Mr.. Pickwicls, and so
frightened, that they succeeded in In
juring his cause irretrlevabiy. and Mr..
Wrinkle, especially, made such prodigi-
! Gus plumbers that he rushed from the
| witness stand and was found some
;hoArs later with his head buried be-
meath sofa cushions in the hotel,
grooming in a hollow and dismal man
Rer +
scrjeant Snubbin was ma gnifcent, as
! usual, presenting his clients side OF
the case, and the Judge who became
quite awake when the case drew near
It's end, was nobly impartial and ex-
planned lucidly to the Jury that Ii Mrs.
Bardell was right, Mr.. PickwIck must
be wrong. and that IL Mr.. PIckw!ck
J was right, Mrs. Bardell must be wrong.
He read as many OF his notes as he