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Dearborn property in Chicago. The opinion named Jackson and an old German named was in favor of Baubien. . . . Baubien had laid Hillsabek. An application had been made out the ground in town lots, and had made for a change of venue. John S. Greathouse, deeds of gift to the different children of the a lawyer residing at Edwardsville, was Hilljudges of the Supreme Court, of a consider sabek's lawyer. When the court adjourned able number of these lots. . . . Wilson and at noon, and as Greathouse was getting on Lockwood had too much modesty to sit his horse to go home, Hillsabek came to him in the case, . . . but Smith and Browne and asked him where he wanted his case had no such scruples." The Hon. Levi to be sent. Greathouse told him he didn't

Davis, of Alton, in a care; Judge Smith recent letter writes of might send it to hell, Judge Smith thus : but he did not want it "At Hillsboroin Mont sent to any place where gomery County, in the Judge Smith presided. fall of 183 1, two inci As soon as court met dents occurred ofmuch after dinner, old Hill prominence in Judge sabek came in, and Smith's judicial life. walking up to the A man named Dryer Judge's seat said, (if I rightly remember), 'Judge, Squire Greata Quaker, came into house says he don't court with his hat on, care where you send and Judge Smith di my case, you may send rected the sheriff to it to hell if vou choose, order Dryer to remove but he don't want you his hat. This Dryer to send it to any place refused to do, and where you preside.' Judge Smith ordered ' Bring Mr. Greathouse him to jail. Judge into court,' said Judge Hall, a member of the Smith; and when the bar, got up and said : sheriff reported that 'Your Honor is not, Greathouse had gone, perhaps, aware that Judge Smith directed ALFRED M. CRAIG. Mr. Dryer is a Quaker, the clerk to enter and wears his hat in an order suspend court from conscientious motives.' Judge ing Mr. Greathouse from practising in his Smith replied, 'I don't care; a man may take circuit for the period of eighteen months. it into his head to come into court naked.' At the next session of the Legislature, in Dryer was sent to jail, where he remained 1832-1833, articles of impeachment were pre until court convened the next morning, when ferred against Judge Smith, and the incidents Judge Smith directed that he be brought into I have mentioned formed the main grounds court. Dryer stated his reasons for wearing for his impeachment. The trial excited great his hat and was discharged. This incident interest, it being the only one that had ever created an jntense excitement against the taken place in Illinois. Judge Breese was judge in Hillsboro, where Dryer was a much the leading counsel for Judge Smith; and respected citizen. The other incident to Benjamin Mills, the most brilliant lawyer which I have alluded was as follows : A suit that ever lived in Illinois, was the leading was pending in the court between a man manager on the part of the House of Rep