The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-31

Mercy was in that Justices heart.
OF that we were assured.
1t happened so that on this trial
day Judge Wiswell was forced to
appear in an argument before the
supreme court at ST. Paul, and Judge
Brown, for Calvin's sake, had to at
tend church trial somewhere out
OF town-no, not she; that was before
Sister Coler involved the Presby,
terrain church; before she put on a
long dress and a longer face.
The law student had to appear
for the defense But his co-counsel
made an adequate brief and pre-.
pared the case so thoroughly that the
rights of tenants were fortified by
decisions from Jacobs lease under
Laban down to then.
And the grafton we had prepared
to address that court
You remember Daniel Websters
efforts at oratory?
Forget them-rubbish!
To be quite spectacular and dra-
matte we had prepared our client and
his family to play their part OF
poverty and distress. Roe and the
Mrs. with her nine ragged chill
dren were arrayed before that JUS
tice with all the arts of squallor
impersonated
Out at the old Colony church in
1SSO-'S1 when Norton county peo
Pile gathered to secure aid when
be assured, they donned their robes
of lamentations in sack cloth and
ashes, they seemed to us as dudes
putting on style compared with this
group of woe.
The case proceeded with the evil
dence offered by the cormorant
banker
The local grainbuyer testified that
Richard Roe had reused him at mid
night to take a load of wheat on
twelve different occasions, refusing
checks on Shaubut's bank therefor
The poultry dealer testified that
he had been awakened in the night
three different times to buy twenty
dozen chickens.
Livery men likewise testified oil
after-dark purchases of many tons
of hay hauled to their barns.
A neighbor testified that he had
purchased the entire crop of corn
on that farm, and showed Roe's
receipt in full for the money.
Disinterested parties testified that
allowed to burn felled timber, he
the said defendant Roe, instead burn
ed all Nhe fence rails close about
the premises.
Shaubut himself took the witness
lrb lopiaI roooiuin0 INV nQ RI
of the proceeds of wheat, corn, hay
chickens-the' springs stock all his
or other. compensation for his third
part of the rental; that. his suspi
cions were first aroused on failure
to get his three dozen eggs pei
week, on the pretestations of the
tenant that the cholera had killed
most all of them, and the rest quiz
laying eggs. ser. .@.---.
A few other allegations were sus
tanned by testimony before the coun
sci for plaintiff gave us-"We rest
We were equal to the occasion
and knew what "a great lawyer al
ways does: Holds whispering
conference with his client. ..
Roe's audible response to oul
whispered query is SelI-expldndtofy
81 guess it's So"
Mrs. Doe was sobbing.
Her progeny was bawling in ar
inverse ratio, sound to size.
Our brilliant performance in ora
tory was all thatft Demosthenes him
self could have put into two words
Defendant rests. stb
Judgment for plaintiff.
Law, in the abstract, Is admirable
i'm the concrete--what did we say
to those oxen? ..
Later, and very soon after, we
found ourself assistant editor of the
Dubuque Herald, journalist who
needed no lantern in broad daylight
as did Diogenes, to find an honest
man.