A KENTUCKAIN'S BARGAIN.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 654, 29 March 1870, Page 4

A KENTUCKAIN'S BARGAIN.

[CINCINNATTI COMMEROIAIi.] . While the trial of the ejectment suit of Taylor's Heirs v. Hornbeck and Others was progres3ing before a jury* at Newport, Kentnoky, a singular transaction was disclosed by' the evidence, which created not a little surprise and merriment in the Court-room. TKe defendants called a witness by. tile name of Isaac Yelton for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of a witness named Orcutt, of the plaintiffs. After a direct examination of Yelton, he was turned over to the plaintiffs for cross-examination, when the following evidence was elicited :— Attorney : Are you and Orcutt on : good, terms ? Witnes3 : Yes, sir. Attorney: Did you never have any quarrel or difiSculty ? Witness : No, sir ; we never did. Attorney : Did you not take Orcntt's wife away from him and run away with her ; and did you not have a difficulty with him about that. Witness: I never took his wife away from him. Attorney : Did not you and a man named Gosney take his wife away? Witness : His wife went away with me and Gosney, but we did not take her away from Orcntt. There was no difficulty about it ; it was all satisfactory. I traded him a horse for his wife ; but I fonnd that I had been imposed on, and I returned her to him, and it was all right. There was ho quarrel or difficulty about it. Attorney: How weie you imposed upon ? Witness : I traded the horse for his wife, but he put. on me besides two children and a dog ; so I returned her to him. I do not mean that he cheated me in the trade, for the transaction was all fair; but he imposed on me— he got the best of the bargain. I had no use for the two children and the dog. This testimony was given with the utmost coolness,- and in a manner which indicated that the witness regarded the transaction as entirely legitimate and proper. He. is a man of ordinary intelligence, and has been for a long time a constable in the upper end of Campbell County.