From the Montreal ‘ Gazette • The jury had been out on the case al! morning and was .still undecided. _ Th( vote stood eleven to one for acquittal, but one old codger stubbornly held out for a verdict df guilty. The sheriff came in at dinner time and inquired what they would have to eat. “ Wa-a----all,” said the foreman, disgustedly, “you kin bring us eleven dinners/’ Then he added, reflectively, “And a bale of hay.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 4
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