WILD WEST LAW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2504, 20 January 1887, Page 2

WILD WEST LAW.

BY Mabioh SHIM*!'" Wa sometimes growl aboUt th»- wayj themodern lawyer attacks and witness on the stand, but there has really been * great Improvement ill the kjt twenty yiars,f especially in the West. In 1865 the miter was a juror in the case of Paige, tried in .Kansas. • Adams was a! Boston speculator, who was'trying to oust Paige from certain landsr* The ■ lands -olearly belonged to Adams, arid Paige.'.yfoS' olearly a squatter, bat tho latte/ resisted ! ahd the foran appealed to (be law/ Th 9 judg« was a

■ Bqoattier.'iind. therefore, ft, Paige was likewise a 1 cousin of Ins., WW Adams -oanie' 'to -take the stand,; Paige's' lawer,; whose bame v waa Britt, begflji': ~ "Now, Mr say you "bought: thirland from a party in Boston ? - 11 ,,., .. "Yes, sir." '■: ■ "• And you psjd him 7?ji7 • •. " Yea, Bir." ' '£; Davis, tbio'.b'ogua : elairoant' to®>tod, lay, "fymm i; *' if :' No, air." O. \ ■ : ''Be oawM!,; psfpy fa case I How often jo&.tpa aekt Jo State Prison " -- -< Never!" ' " % "" liooioutiAh"-1 see th<r guj|lty blu9h o| his. face I/ Notiio .hTrfcChfttsion 1 lot)}' Hoborj'Hhat mantis Mberately jying I" - ■ " I .'object j to' all , : this t exclaimed Adalafc'" lawyer asjie. «| " Stevq Bullpok, you sot dbwri i 'shouted his Hobo*. ' "I've you starWd out;, driving a ipme'; you tfaS alius; objecting this' man has been-' in vSte JPrisoa. thik' Court wants to tow itf; Let the q&ea> tion." ■ ".liwer'.haye baeaj'.'replM Adams. HH»<^.y6n : ?" asked tlie la'wyerJ. "7 Tqiir Jfrnat, what to do villi the oa& on t-tfsl Mains' lawyer. " " If. w« can show that this- mail is a thief, tuorderer and land pirate it'» our baainesa to de tci: .:K.a !woU ih.sheep'solothiae snoaks into duty to .expose ,Mra.">'; u ' ■•.»••;'''■ " I'shbnld iay it WBB>' ; ' auswered the Cotuf, " The-^ritne^s -mOßt'daiwoir-ib® «k I'll loßk'Bp'up for cbiitempt." ; " I oev^idid;" replieiAdainfi. : v'. "Thea your looks-Wloyoo. - Didn't yon jjtt a'sfort.-afitt in Loaia ?•"• '■ ';- y- " Your,Sonor, I most blijeot," said Bulleel, "Thisis:icase^r-,,' . " Steio Bullock, set down I."oxolainndthe Conrtr "You quit driving mules a yeir ago and went idto law, bat you don't know every, thing yet; This court can give you hall a mile the start and. beat you.' If thiamin has robbed a bank we want to know it. We want to know what' sort of a. man has come among us to skeer our wiminin and children." " I did not rob a bank," said Adams. "Oh, you didn't I 'Veneered.Britt, " How about burning a bam in Illinois ? '! " Your Honor,.!, did not come here to be insulted," said Adama, as he turned to the Court. •' i - ' . " Answer the questional "'commanded the Judge.' " I've got a.barn bf my own, or am going to have next Spring, and ii Wro taken a'barn-burnef to thfe bdsomofthis community 1 want to know it.'' ' AM:;';;. For two long hours'' Britt. continued to aik such'questiohs, and the, Judge obliged the witness to answer. Then,'the. tease, for the defence was closed witlwuf a word in regard •to'its'legaliasreots. -EnKlsbntended, in his 'sjeseh to the jury, that jtwas a plot to rob i •big-hearted, citize'n of. his all, and Bullock was-ao isgu6ted that he refused t6;oifcsf&g make ;an.argument. " us," Ijp fi'tfeiit any iooling in. this case, a verdict te wff&fii; out, and - ten- of thfttjelve were | ready to agree with tho Tfto of tt v 'hung out, and to reward-us Iprprddueing a his Honor••sont. us/jw jail tot \ 'thirty-six hours apiece'.-':?;' *