Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-01-19
to go away and come back again
when the tooth stopped bleeding
A Sample Case.

A Sample Case.
"She went away and when sh'
came back her jaw was terribly swol
len and she was suffering intensly
The boy explained that he could dt
nothing until the swelling went down
but as the pain was so great, she de
cided that she must have, treatment
Immediately and went to another
| dentist. The new dentist treated hel
and. extracted the piece of tooth left
in her jaw, and told her to take il
back to the other dentist and show
him what he had done.
"The three brothers all swore that
the boy was merely huckster, and
that he had never been in the den,
lists Office and had never worn a
white coat in his life. But the woman
positively identified the boy and 9th,
er witnesses also identified him and
said he had treated them in his broth
er's office. The boy was placed in a
group of men seated in the court
room, instead of on the platform, and
still the witnesses had no difficulty
in picking him out. They were also
very positive in their statements and
could not be confused and they didn't
have any reason to be against the
boy unless he really had been in the
Office"
Furthermore, the boy did not make
good impression in the court room.
He had regular Charlie Chaplin
mustache, a lovely complexion and
big, eloquent brown eyes, but he
was too pert and flippant and sure
of his ground.
"I'd much rather be tried by a
jury of women than by jury of
men," he remarked on the morning
that the case opened. women
wouldn't be fair to woman who was
being tried, but with man it'll be
different. Pm satisfied, all right"
Thus the decision of the jury. must
have burst upon the young man with
a tremendous shock. For it took them
almost no time at all to find him gull
ty of the serious offense of practicing
dentistry without license. At first
two of the twelve women were inclin-
ed to acquit him because they felt
sorry for his brother, who had work
ed so hard to educate him, and who
would now probably lose good deal
of his practice, but these did not
hold out very long. The decision came
in Just seventeen minutes.
Judge Likes Women Jurors.
Judge Dugan was tremendously
pleased with the result of this trial.
1t was, he declared precisely the de-
cision3he-wo9la- -hasie-- made. 4himse&fs
Since then he has been encouraged
to repeat the experiment.
We have found women juries an
unqualified success" he said recent
Ily, "and they have had the effect of
making men juries easier to get. The
men seem little ashamed of them
selves and they are not offering so
many excuses to escape serving. l
think including women in the jury
lists will make the whole business
easier. 1t doubles the number of
available jurors for one thing.
at is also possible to get higher
type of women to serve on a jury
the same type of men are too busy
to serve. Some of the male juries
we have are almost feeble minded,
and the verdicts they render are abb
solutely ridiculous. have thrown out
many verdicts of men juries and or
dered retrials. Sometimes let them
stand, because it doesn't make any
difference, anyway. But often the
verdicts are too irrelevant to the
facts"
Judge Dugan is not sure that wo-
men would be as efficient in a murder
case, or very long-drawn-out civil
case, where every point is basis OF
long argument. They would get
tired, of course, but then it is not an
unusual sight to see masculine jury
nodding and doing in the jury box
entirely oblivious to important tes,
timony. Women could not do any
worse than this, he says.