IN SCOTTISH COURT
AMERICAN JUDGE'S WISECRACKS Chewing gum and wisecracking, an American circuit court attorney, Judge John Xangle, from Missouri, pleasantly disturbed (be dignified atmosphere of the Glasgow sheriff’s courthouse during an inquirv into claims of Scots to share in the £500,000 fortune left by an Irish American. •fudge Xangle. dressed in a lounge suit, sat on the bench usually occupied by the bewiggt'd. black-robed sheriff. As the proceedings opened he placed his chewing gum in one check and said : “ Make yourselves comfortable, folks.” A young mother with a baby in her anus entered the witness-box. Judge Xangle, saw that she was handicapped and asked; “ Will someone take the baby, or shall ] have to take it?” A woman in court came to the rescue. Judge Xangle wanted American hustle and stopped a slight altercation between a witness and a lawyer with smiling sarcasm. “ Now, now, I don’t think we should let the State pay for this private controversy,” he said. If all the claims to the fortune are established about 200 people in America, Britain, and Fire will participate in the fortune. Judge Xangle expects that it will take at least a year before any settlement can he made.
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Evening Star, Issue 23378, 22 September 1939, Page 11
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199IN SCOTTISH COURT Evening Star, Issue 23378, 22 September 1939, Page 11
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