“Gentlemen, you must send him home to them.”
Shifting uneasily in his seat, the juror blurted out:
“Yes, we’ll do it, too.”
McSweeny instantly sat down. The case was won. His client was acquitted. But the most interesting point in this case, perhaps, was the fact, which the lawyer afterward learned, that the prisoner at the bar was an unmarried man.[Pg 54]
THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS.
City Bars Noisy Weddings.
Hereafter wedding celebrations in Cambridge, Mass., must be brief and noiseless by order of the Cambridge aldermen. The board also has voted to ask Harvard to appoint a watchman to chaperon Jarvis Street, known as “Lovers’ Lane.”