The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-07-09

hey ldDle WIFI SW1IC, redSSurlnS
nod
Have you an attorney to defend
your asked the tired judge.
mo, your honor. 1 am too poor
To-
The tired judge turned to Mr.. Mich
OILS, the prosecuting attorney.
What do you say, Mr.. Nichols?"
The prosecuting attorney carelessl3
nodded then half rising:
81 move that the Court assign an
attorney to represent the accused from
the attorneys present in court
The judge cast his eyes furtively
over some papers on his desk. Then
he glanced down at the attorneys
table and asked:
"Mr. Williams, will you kindly act?
Williams, a bald man with an alb
rupt mustache, bowed obediently, the1
met the eye of the burly attorney
Monovitch who smiled.
The accused man turned with re
lieved grin to a pallid fellow-culprit
who crouched next to him in the dock
The pallid prisoner whispered sullen
ly:
You're looked after'-but me-
His drawn face expressed sheer ter
ror. There were reasons why the boss
-Manovitch-mig let him go to the
pen. He had, the day before, got 6
swift hint at it. We-e-ll, he had meant
to play the game-but there was
Mamie the Coke
The Judge was speaking. Eyes, Mr.
Williams, | can give you until tomor
Tense. There is"-he glanced at the
clerks docket-'-'this Whalen case tt
dispose of. But 1 will first ascertain
as to Whalen's plea and as to an at
torney. James Whalen, stand up!"
The pallid prisoner rose, ant
glanced in a wild, swift appeal tt
where Monovitch sat hunched over tht
attorneys table. But the great under
worlds legal adviser stared unrecog
nizingly at him with his narrowed
eyes.
Jim Whalen winched He was no
then to be looked after" Damn
you!" he Snarled in silent rage anC
terror.
Manovitch sensed the noiseless curse
and, grinning, shrugged his heay.
shoulders. Whalen must go.
The world of lawlessness has it:
own laws. Booty-taxes are not will
immunity to be evaded. Taxes ar
as essential to organized lawlessnes:
as they are to society. Whalen sen
to the pen would have a salutary ef
feet on the other wolves.
Whalen gulped; then pleaded hope
less mot guilty" to the verbose in
dictment.
Are you represented by an attor
ney?" asked the tired Judge, glancini
at his notes again.
"No-I amt got no money to pa!
no mouthpiece-"
The judge glanced furtively at Man
ovitch, then back at his notes again
then he understood.
No lawyer had been Suggested.
The judge coughed, listened to tht
usual motion from the prosecuting at
torney, then cast his eye selectingly
down the long rows of lawyers. One
of the young men would do.
There was an amused conjecture or
the faces of the lawyers. When az
attorney was to be assigned who ha(
rot been suggested, the matter be
came a joke. There was no pay ii
the job, and of course it was under
stood that no lawyerwith any practice
would be assigned Some of the
younger lawyers recognized in the ap
pointment an opportunity to get Their
names before the public and many
attended court for this reason
And Newell P. Mccullough attended
though he was not young lawyer by
some thirty-five years. Since he ha-
dazedly watched his large practice
dwindle away from him, twelve years
before, he had waited for his chance
again.
The judges eye came at last to rest
speculatively upon his stopped shout
ders, his mild, supreme-court-judge
face, his lack-luster eyes that held NJ
gigor. He recalled how two years
before he had selected Mccullough tt
defend the woman charged with va
grancy; how his meager, abstractet
defense had been beaten down by the
virulent district attorney, and how
following a conviction, though the
guilt was doubtful-he himself had in
terposed under the probation laws
He recalled, too, what giant McCol
Tough had been at the bar before thai
mysterious blight had wrought his
ruin. He was become a grotesque
parody on N. P. Mccullough, the cor
poration lawyer.
The Judges eyes passed on. seeking
some young attorney then came bach
to Mccullough. Smiling whimsicalls
and glancing with anticipatory mirtf
along the rows of intent faces, he an
nounced:
"Mr. Mccullough, will you please as
sist the court by representing the
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