Innocent-Yes, Innocent!

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 73, 21 October 1897, Page 3

Innocent-Yes, Innocent!

Le"al eloquence in the Uuitea States is not wanting in lloweriness. For example, take the recent address of a lawyer " out West" to a jury.

" Gentlemen," he said, " the law expressly declares, in the beautiful language of Snakespeare, that were doubts exists of the guilt of the prisoner, it is your duty to fetch him in innocent. If you keep this fact in view in the case of my client, gentlemen, you will have the honour of making a friend of him and all his relations, and you can always look back upon this occasion and reflect with pleasure that you have done as you would be done by. "But if, on the other hand, you disregard the principles of law, set at naught my eloquent remarks, and fetch him in guilty, the silent twitches of conscienoe will follow you all over every fair cornfield, the skeleton band of remorse will be for ever clutching at your vitals, and my injured and down-trodden client, gentlemen, will be apt to light on you on one of these dark nights, as a cat lights saucer of new milk, and lick you." Slopping a Horse with a Heriuon. The late Archbishop Tate, of Canterbury, once made an effective use of a sermon. Driving down Holloway Hill, he was confronted by a runnaway horse, with a heavy dray, making Btraight for his carriage. He threw a sermon in its face. The horse was so bewildered by the fluttering leaves that it swerved and paused ; the driver regained control, the sermon was picked up, and the divine proceeded on his way. •• I don't know," he said to his companion, the present Archbishop of York, " whether my sermon did any good to tae congregation, but it was of considerable service to myself, I can assure you."