THE GOOD OLD TIMES.
" Springfield Republican."
" The good old times" that we sometimes sigh for, writes a correspondent, were probably not very much better than these, judging from the occasional glimpses we get from old records. A private memorandum of expenses at " Tanton Court," in 1748, j-ecently exhumed from an old trunk in West Springfield, has the following among other items :—To the Jury as apresent, .£3 2s; for licker to treat persons and witnesses, 3s. How this case was decided, and what injustice was done, we may never know, but the fact remains that 128 yeara ago, a jury was tampered with, and witnesses bribed by some one who had friends in court, and. knew how to " put his money where it would do the most good."
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Kumara Times, Issue 198, 23 May 1877, Page 2
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