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serve the magnate.THE COURT FOUND HIM GUILTY.Friday afternoon Sam Harrison was arraigned before Justice Davenport charged with assault. The prosecuting witness was a dusky damsel named Sallie Jones, who figures considerablyin the police courts and causes theforce some trouble ever and anon, especially anon. .1 Marshall Miller appeared for the people and Mr. Harrison conducted his side of the case ina manner that would have reflected credit on Sergeant Buz Fuz in the palmy days of court practice in the London police courts when Dickens was a newspaper reporter. It is said that when a man becomes his own lawyer he has a fool for a client, but be this as it may, Mr. Harrison fought the case for all there was in it, and although he came out second best in the legal battle, he demonstrated the fact that he was a stayer, and when the justice closed the engagement by saving “$3 and costs.” which the same amounted to about $1P! of the currency j 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 filed. lt;vc.. c., in double the amount of fine and costs, which Mr. Harrison readily furnished, his bondsman being Mike Schneider, theproprietor of a North Sandy street saloon If the people win out Mr. Harrison may have to crack up to the tune of no less than $0, and in case he has not the v herewith with which to satisfy the demands of justice, Mr. Schneider will be called upon to foot the bill. All of which toes to show’ that law suits are a very expensive luxury.As this was simply a case of assault without the battery, the justice placed a minimum fine on the defendant, and whereas, if the battery had been included, the fine and costs would have been considerably more. See how the old thing works? Better take a tlwimp-iug tl an go into court unless you have got monej to burn.«
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Jacksonville Daily Illinois Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Wed, Mar 08, 1899
Page 15
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