TOLD HIS OWN STORY.

Patea Mail, Volume XXIX, 16 December 1908, Page 3

TOLD HIS OWN STORY.

ZMisa Lydia Conley, a clever Wyandotte girl, is the only Indian woman lawyer in the world. She is a member of the Kansas Bar, and at Kansas City, ament a recent India* case that she conducted, she told an interesting legal i story. “So I put my man on the stand,” she said. “ That, if your case is a just one, is always the thing to do. You know the story of the Kansas land •claimant ? - “ Well, out here many years ago a man brought • suit before the squire to recover some land that had been outrageously filched from him. His case was a good one, but the other side had doctored the plaintiff’s witnesses, too—and. up to the time when ha took the stand himself not a jot or tittle of testimony in his favor had been recorded. “ He, as soon as he was sworn, turned to the Justice and said :

“ ‘ Squire, I brought this suit, and yet tho evici' ice, excepting my own, is all •gainst me. Now, I don’t accuse anyone of lying, squire, but these witnesses are the most mistaka* lot of follows I ever saw. You know me, squire. Two years ago you sold mo » boss for sound that was as blind as a bat. I made the deal and stuck to it, and this is the first time I have mentioned it. When you used to buy my grain, squire, you stood on tue scales when the empty waggon was weighed, but I never said a word. Now, -do you think I am the kind of a man to Hack up a rumpus and sue a fellow unless ie has done me a real wrong? Why, squire, if you’ll recall that sheep speculation you and m 6 ” “ But at this,point the squire, very red in the face, hastily decided the case in tho plaintiff’s favor.”