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Show STORIES OF THE BENCH AND BAR. 247 as he wonld charge about $10, and would want it all cash, I cannot afford that kind of a clergyman.' "I had a client, a German Lutheran divine, whom I obtained to perform the ceremony. " The groom seemed to think a wedding ring necessary, and I accompanied him to -the jeweler's, where he was shown a brace of solid gold rings, that cost ten dollars each. '"Have you any cheaper?' he asked. "'Yes,' said the jeweler; 'but they are plated.' "' How long could a girl wear a plated ring without its appearing to be plated?' asked the groom. " 'About six years,' was the answer. "'Well, give me that ring for $3.00. The Lord only knows where we'll be in six years. I won't tell her its plated, and she'll never find it out.' " In a week after that the parties had grown weary of wedded life and separated. " I paid the minister his fee! "I was once appointed," he continued, "to defend an indigent prisoner, charged with the larceny of a horse. The prisoner protested to me that he was innocent, but unfortunately the facts, based entirely upon circumstantial evidence, pointed the other way. No one saw the person who stole the horse, steal it. " Up to the hour of trial we had no witnesses. " It occurred to me as" a last resort that it might be well to show the previous good character of the accused. While waiting in the sheriff's office for our turn, I asked the prisoner if there was any one who could testify to his previous good character. |
