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THK COl'KT FOIND HIM til’I LTV.Friday afternoon Sam Harrison was arrhigned before Justice Davenport charged with assault. 'Pho prosecuting witness was a dusky damsel namedSallie Jones, who figures considerablyin the police courts and causes the force some trouble ever and anon, especially anon. J Marshall Miller appeared for the people and Mr. Harrison conducted his side of the case in a mantlet that would have reflected credit on Sergeant Buz Fuz in the palmy days of court practice in theLondon police courts when Dickenswas a newspaper reporter. It is said that when a man becomes his own lawyer he has a fool for a client, but bethis as it may. Mr. Harrison fought thecase for all there was in it. and although he came out second best iti the legal battle, he demonstrated the fact that he was a stayer, and when the justice closed the engagement by saying *‘$3 and costs,” which the same amounted to about of the currency of the realm, he immediately took an appeal to the “county court.Of course it is a mere matter of form, this thing of taking an appeal, but a bond has to be tiled. A. Am .. in doublethe amount of fine and costs, which Mr. Harrison readily furnished, hisbondsman being Mike Schneider, the proprietor of a North Sandy street saloon. If the people win out Mr Harrison in a \ have to crack up to the tune of no less than $50. and in case he has not the wherewith with which to satisfy the demands of justice, Mr. Schneider will he called upon to foot the bill All of which goes to show that law suits are a very expensive luxury. As this was simply a case of assault without the battery, the justice placeda minimum fine on the defendant, andwhereas, if the battery had been included, the fine and costs would havlt; bet a considerably more. See how tin old thing works? Better take a thumping than go into court unless you have got money to burn.♦ *
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Jacksonville Daily Illinois Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Sat, Mar 04, 1899
Page 2
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