Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-17
women JUR|ES NOW POPULAR

they were, and yet we had to deter
mine which one was lying, and which
one was telling the truth. OF course,
one of them was lying. But he was
permitted to come into court and
swear to a lie that he knew was a lie,
and the jury decided against him. de-
cided that he ~as lying, but no was
allowed to go without anything being
done to him"
Our case, of course. was a simple
one" continued Mrs. Colby. There
was dentist who came from a fam
lily of hucksters. There were three
brothers, and the dentist had taken
one of his brothers and kept him in
school, sending him thru high school.
Afterward, the boy became a huck-
ster, but also helped in the Office of his
brother. the dentist. One of the wit
nesses. woman. testified that she went
to the dentists ONCE one evening at
O'Clock and the boy tried to pull
tooth for her. but the tooth broke. and
blood began to flow. The boy told her
she would have to go away and come
back again when the tooth stopped
bleeding"
A SAMPLE CASE
she went away and when she came
back her jaw was terribly swollen and
she was suffering intensely. The boy
explained that he could do nothing
the pain was so great, she decided
that she must have treatment immed-
lately and went to another dentist.
The new dentist treated her and ex-
tracted the piece OF tooth left in her
jaw. and told her to take 1t back to
the other dentist and show him what
had been done.
The three brothers all swore that
the boy was merely a huckster, and
that he had never been In the dentists
Office and had never worn a white coat
In his life. But the woman positively
identified the boy and other witnesses
also identified him and said he had
treated them in his brothers office.
The boy was placed in group of men
seated In the courtroom. 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 n
good impression in the court room. He
had a regular Charlie Chaplin mus
tache, lovely complexion and big.
eloquent brown eyes. but he was too
pert and fippant and sure of his
ground
I'D much rather be tried by a jury
Of women than by a jury of men," he
remarked on the morning that the case
opened. Women wouldn't be fair to
a woman who was being tried, but
with a man it'll be different I'm sat
isfied. all right"
Thus the decision OF the jury must
have burst upon the young man with
tremendous shock. For 1t took them
almost no time at all to md him gull
ty of the serious offense OF practicing
dentistry without license. At first
two Of the twelve women were in
clinod to acquit him because they felt
sorry for his brother. who had worked
so hard to educate him. and who
would now probably lose a 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
1t was, he declared. precisely the de-
cision he would have made himself
Since then he has been encouraged to
repeat the experiment.
We have found women juries an un-
qualified success" he said recently. and
they have had the effect OF makifi-7
men juries easier to get. The men
seem little ashamed OF themselves and
they are not offering so many excuses
to escape serving. / think including
women in the jury lists will make the
whole business of jury-getting easier.
It doubles the number of available ju-
rors, for ono thing.
1T is also possible to get a higher
type of women to serve on a-tury