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The Green Bag “Shure, ye can just tell th' coort that
yer, “but it will be necessary that I present to the court some grounds for a
I want a continuance till I can gitabetter
remand.
lawyer to spake for the boy."
What shall I say?"
The Editor will II [1nd to run'w for this “If!” anything likely {a ruler-Iain the reader: of the Gran: Bag in the we) o/lqml lah'qu'h'u, {cab}, and cream’.
USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING “'
HERE used to be an old fellow of sixty," said Judge Lindsey, at a Denver dinnerI
"who got arrested about twice a week for con
viviality. He was always haled before Magis trate Blank, and as the magistrate was about
you only got drunk sixteen times. I'll let you off.‘ “ ‘Thank you, Judge,' said old George. 2.5.118 looked the paper upside down, left thethough.' dock. "‘You —St. LouisatGlobe.
sixty too, a queer kind of comradeship, almost
friendly, arose between the two men. ‘‘In the late autumn the toper was called away from Denver. He did not return till Christmas time. “The magistrate, in the grccn-festooned court
NEGRO wascharged in a Mississippi C011"
with the murder of another of his race and had pleaded not guilty and on being questionfl‘l repeatedly had said, “I didn' do it, I didn' do it!" There was no doubt of his crime, however, and
the jury brought in a verdict of “guilty" and the
room, felt kindly:— “ ‘Well, George,’ he said to the prisoner, ‘you
are here again at last, eh?‘ “ ‘Yes, your honor,‘ said old George humbly. “ ‘And how many times, George, did you get drunk?’ “ ‘I don't like to say, your honor,‘ old George Ialtered, ‘before all these here people.’ “ ‘Well,’ said the magistrate, ‘write it down.’
“50 George wrote, and the paper was passed up to the magistrate, who looked at it and said :— “ ‘Ah, well, it's the Christmas season; and as
Judge proceeded to sentence.
After reminding the negro that he had been
“duly tried by a jury of twelve men," etc. the Judge said: “It is my duty to wam you that your days on this earth are numbered and It behooves you to avail yourself of the little
remnant of time allotted to you to make Youf peace with God." clamation, Just here“I the donenegro dat ar, broke Jedge, in Iwith donethe dat81‘ Br long befo' I killed dat niggah!"
Correspondence THE TORRENS SYSTEM AGAIN
letter published in the July number of
To the Editor of the Green Bag: —
the Green Bag, you quote the remarks
Sir: This torrid July weather, is not particularly conducive to cool and calm discussion of the Torrens Law, but as
the New York State Bar Association held at Syracuse in January, 1911, as
of a certain lawyer at the meeting of
follows:
you have been so kind as to allow me considerable space in previous issues
Here is a result which can actually practically [sic] happen.
A man may own a piece of vacant
of the Green Bag, I desire to still further trespass upon your courtesy.
In your editorial comment upon my
Eroperty, which he will naturally unfrequently sic] visit. He goes to Europe for six months and upon his return he finds that some one has
