THE LATE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 186, 5 April 1902, Page 4

THE LATE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.

When Charles Russell came to London ae & law student he was very fond of theatre-going. One evening he waa in a corner position it) the pit of the Haymarket Theatre. During the progreas of the piece a man seated not fat off missed bis watch, and created a commotion by shooting, “Tin robbed, and these three men have it,” pointing to the three men in the corner position. The men formed a cordon around the three men marked out, and after some dilly-dallying, Russell, who was one of I the accused batch, satd, “We had better get out and be searched." The suggestion was adopted, and out marched the trio in single file, the future “ Chief of English law in the centre. While they were walking out Russell thought how it would be possible for the man walking behind hhn to have the watch and pass it into his pocket, or plant the stolen property upon him. Accordingly be put back his hand as a guard, only to feel in his tail pocket “the watch." Needless to say Russell was highly embarrassed, as all the dread possibilities of conviction for such an offence crept upon his mind. " Good God, and 1 know no one in London who can speak for me!" The moment, however, the first man eot out side the door ho was prompt I v se-r.vd by the doi.octives, one of whom ev.-i.siT.-er. " At your old r- j,notl.er ni-'-c. r beckoned to :> -- •:<, » r k, saying that, the rnr.n they were binding and handcoding v/on.d Knoseil, of Connie, wan nou-piussfid, and readily concluded that ae lie hsd the watch in his pocket, he would gc to the theatre authorities, and tell the whole tale straightforwardly. Ao he was preparing to carry out this determination, ho put his hand in bis pocfkot to feel and probably bring forward the watch ; but bis pocket contained merely bis suuff bos.