A KENTUCKIAN'S BARGAIN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 109, 10 March 1870, Page 6

A KENTUCKIAN'S BARGAIN.

While the trial of the ejectment suit of Taylor's Heirs v. Hornbeck and Others was progressing before a jury at Newport, Kentucky, a singular transaction was disclosed bythe evidence, which created not a little surprise and merriment in the Courtroom. The defendants called a witness by the name of Isaac Yelton for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of a witness named William Orcutt, of the plaintiffs. After a direct examination of Yelton, he was turned over to the plaintiffs for crossexamination, when the following evidence was elicited : — Attorney — Are you and Orcutt on good terms ? Witness — Yes, sir. Attorney — Did you never have any quarrel or difficulty ? Witness — No sir ; we never did. Attorney — Did you not take Orcutt'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 Orcutt. There was no difficulty about it ; it was all satisfactory. I traded him a horse for his wife ; but I found that I had been imposed on, and I returned her to him, and it was all right. There was no quarrel or difficulty about it. Attorney — How were 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. Ido 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 Wo childreu 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. — " Cincinnati Commercial."