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The following comedy of errors was enacted in Court of Quarter Sessions in the West, afew weeks since:The Clerk of the Court called over the names of twelre jurors. Two answered to that rareand romantic name—John Smith.The Clerk, well knowing that there was one certain John.Smith, if, indeed, any John Smith can be certain, returned by the Sheriff as a petit juror, took it for granted that John Smith hiad answered twice to his name and that by some mistake he (the Clerk) had written a duplicate of the name of John Smith,Proceeding upon his absurd hypothesis,that, there could be onlv one John
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Port Tobacco Times And Charles County Advertiser
Port Tobacco, Maryland, US
Fri, Mar 22, 1872
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