UNIQUE VERDICT.
A New York' lawyer sa,ys that ha has heard many queer verdicts in his time, hut the quaintest of these was that brought in not long ago by a jury of mountaineers in a sparselysettled part of one of the Western States. •: This was the first case for' the majority of the jury, and tli2y sat for hours arguing and disputing over it in the bare little room at the rear of the court room. At last they straggled hack to their places, and the foreman, a lean, gaunt fellow, with a superlatively solemn expression, voiced the general option : ■"The jury don't think tuat ne done it, for we allow hc v/an'c mere, but we think he woum nave acne it ef he'd had the chanst."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 15 August 1914, Page 3
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128UNIQUE VERDICT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 694, 15 August 1914, Page 3
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