SOME LUCKY LAWYERS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8792, 22 April 1907, Page 4

SOME LUCKY LAWYERS.

If, as is reported, Dr Dclnus, the “famous American criminal advocate, received a retaining fee of £200,000 for defending Mr Harry Thaw, his honorarium will probably t :ke an “ easy first ” among counsels’ fees in crimm 1 cases, even across the Atlantic. Mr Francis L. Weil man received £B,OOO for defending the Hyam twins in Canada on a charge of murder; Mr Austin Fox and Mr D. Rollins were paid £6,000 eich for the prosecution of Inspector M'Laughlin on a bribery charge some years ago ; and Colonel James, counsel for the defence, received a ijo of £5,000 ; while Mr Petersen, an English barrister, was rewarded for defence of Jos Persand, an Indian contractor, in the Mutiny days, by a retaining fee of 100,000 rupees and a refresher of 10,000. But eueh remuneration is paltr£ compared with £60,000 paid to Mr John C. Tomlinson, an American lawyer, by a syndicate of Cuban tobac-o growers ; the annual retainer of £20,000 pa’d to Mr John H. Parsons by the Sugar Trust; Mr Chauncey Depew’s £40',000 for saving an estate from bankruptcy; and the £60,000 received by Messrs Robinson and Bright for legal work in connection with the Broadway Railroad franchise.