A TIGHT CORNER TWIST

Evening Star, Issue 16351, 17 February 1917, Page 6

A TIGHT CORNER TWIST

lawyers arc m>t often nonplussed. "Pier (gnnot afford to be. One of tire first essentials of an advocate’s railing is sdfpossession. lor the power of imperturbability often pets him .>ut of a tight cor ncr. This io illustrated by an iiuvdenl concerning MvKcand. told by Judcc* Parry in his ‘What the Judge Saw.' It cannot be, give n in better words than his own, s.f with this .•oknowledgmcat, we, quota front the book verbatim : “An eld woman indicted for larc.-mx-had given M'Kcnnd a dork defence, and he rushed in at ilia last moment to matte speech on h<T behalf. It was Hear ha had not. ye*,, liar! time to st-ndv the deposition-:. but a few words from Mmest. Jordan, v, 1m ive ; -.ievilliiig in the wite, put him on the right .hne. and he was »oon m the noddle nf an eloquent, harangu-?. Coming to the mid of it he cxr lai rp*:<l :

‘Ami what, gentlemen, did the poor wmar say tvliM til “ Magistrate's clerk asked iicf for her defencei v ill read von her very word-, and ! think you will agree with me. that they bear the stamp of oon.-eiout imuwcm e ' Mines;, Jordon tried to stop the. ti anviil. ot his eloquence, here, feeling rare he was. remembering another r.ci of depositions. I it: i it was m> us.e. M'Keand seized Die papers, and ttinted them rapidly over. ’ Bet uv rend you her exact words. Had Here we are. Oh! H’in 1‘ He filleted a, little when he saw them. 'Well, gentlemen, this uneducated woman dees r.ot pin’- it as you or 1 would put it, but 1 said J would read her words, and 1 will. What -'he says is: 'How the hell could I have ihe bods when he 'was wearing thorn V And, gentlemen,' continued M'Keand in a concluding burst of eloquence, ' I ask, with some confidence, how lire hell could she?' ’’