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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3030, 12 March 1881, Page 4

Colon re! Justice. —Several clays ago a white man was arraigned before a coloured justice in America on charges of killing a man and stealing a mule. ' Wall,' said the justice, ' do facks in dis case shall be weighed wid keerfulness, an' of I hangs yer taint no fault of mine.' ' Judge, you have no jurisdiction to examine me.' ' Dat sorter work 'longs ter de raigular justice, but yer see I'se been put on as a special. A special hez do right ter make a mouf afc de S'preme Court ef he clmses ter.' ' Do the best for mo you can, Judge.' ' Dats what I'se gwine to do. I'se got two kinds of law in dis court, de Arkansaw an' de Texas law. I generally gins a man de right to choose fur hissc'f. Now what law does yer want, de Texas or de Arkansaw ? ' ' I believe I'll take the Arkansas.' 'Wall, in dat case I'll dismiss yer fur etealin' de mule.' ' Thank you, Judge.' An' hang yer fur killin' de man.' ' I believe, Judge, I'll take the Texas.' ' Wall, in dat case I'll dismiss yer fur killin' de man. 5 ' You have a good heart, Judge.' 'An' hang yer fur stealin' de mule, I'll jis take de 'casion heah ter remark, dat do only difference 'tween de two laws iz de way yer state de case.'