Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

tain expectation of recouping losses and
paying back. The chapters Of the story
followed as they always do--that -.
the boy got in deeper and deeper. He
was short $4,000. The next morning
there was to be a directors meeting.
and the accounts were In such shape
that the boy knew his iefalcation
would be discovered.
Now, the Judge knew thing or two
about some of those bank directors.
He knew how close they had Skated to
the edge of thin ice in many a deal.
He knew all about the private lives Of
most of them
do you still have free access to the
caSh?" he asked the boy. He replied in
the affirmative. Then go back to the
bank and smuggle out $4,000 more IN
cash and bring it to me-"
Somewhat beWildered, but having
faith in the judge, and being in up to
the neck anyway, the young man got
the money.
A Trick Of the Trade.
The next day the directors discovered
the $4,000 defalcation and called in
the guilty man. He admitted it, but
said he would not continue the dis
cusSion until he could obtain counsel.
This was permitted, and the judge was
brought in. He addressed the bank
directors. He told them that the boy
had confessed to him that he had taken
not only S25000 but $4,000. 1t was
bad But the gentlemen would bear in
mind the lads position in the COM
munity. How the revelation would hurt
his aged, widowed mother how, indeed,
it would hurt the reputation Of the
bank were it known that trusted en-
ploye had weakened it in such a man.
ner. He had compromise TO propose.
If the directors would agree not to
prosecute, he would make restitution of
half the $4,000 loss. The directors,
first aghast at the $4,000 loss. then
feeling themselves lucky to salvage
anything, grasped the compromise. and
the Judge turned over to them the $25.-
900 the young man had taken Just be-
fore closing the day before.
Then there was the case of Judge
White. He was called upon to defend
a woman accused of numbering her
husband by putting arsenic in a birth
day cake. Judge White knew that the
woman had patiently endured an evil
character for some years. He, and
many others, knew the community was
we'll rid of the man. Still it was muir
der.
The evidence was adduced The
mans stomach had been examined and
traces of arsenic discovered. The cake.
it was claimed. had been analyzed and
found to contain arsenic. The rem
nants of the cake were produced in evil
dence and rested on the attorneys Ia
BILE before the eyes Of the jury.
1t was a brief hearing. all the evt-
dence soon taken. The prosecuting at
torney apparently had an iron-clad case.
While the prosecuting attorney was
making his closing argument, Judge
White sat at the attorneys table and, in
full sight of the jury, absent-mindedly
broke off a bit of cake and munched It.
A juryman noticed him and nudged his
neighbor The judge. still in de-
tached manner broke of another piece
and nibbled. BY this time the attention
Of all the bewildered jurymen was riv-
eted on the absent-minded Judge. He
continued to nibble until the State fin
ished. Then he rose. briefly appealed
10 the jury, pleading the innocence Of
the woman. but making not the slight
est reference to the poison cake. The
case was closed, the jury filed out.
Judge White. with other counsel,
wandered out Of the court room. 1t
might be hours before the jury came in.
But it wasn't. In four minutes the
jury returned with a verdict Of mot
guilty"
But Judge White did not hear the
verdict. He was in a doctors ONCE
across the street. having his stomach
pumped out in accordance with q pre-.
vious arrangement with the physician.