Judge — January 6, 1883 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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| THE JUDGE. THE NEW PENAL COD! | Sunday Offenses for which Fines will be Exacted, OUR POPULAR FARCES. REPORTED BY “ ED." = | OUR INSANITY TRIALS. | CHARACTERS Ma. Perseceren, Exrret A, Exrent B, Exrent ¢ Lawyer Puatstirr, Jroce McGtysta, Mrs. Perse cvtep, Dr. Bovtse, De. Porctse, Lawyer Derespast. | McGissis on the bench Arise Lavwen Ptatstive Lawyer P-—May it please your Honor, 1 hav ¢ | in behalf of my client, Mr cuted, te | release from the lunatic asylum in which he has been £ placed for ty He, your Honor, is as sane ‘ | as you or! | RS | Layer D1 object. Me is as mad as a March | hare. Stark, staving erazy Lawyer P—You are a liar | Laveyer D.—You are another. | Judge McG.—Aiay, byes, aigy. Would ye cast a yant the coort wid yez personal calumnies? I will he ominy—I mane Lawyer Defendant. ; raxeTHoUOrt Lawyer D.—Me was requ - _— ried ten y We had always livel very happily till | Eepert A.—Have made a study of Me : a year ago, when he began to eviuce signs of metal | month. us to that was a caralever, Laird incapacity secuted is crazy. Can tell it by his pulse Judye McG.—Call Dr. Bovine first. | Lawyer Pp—W the ye 3 of the retina of his eye. Ts “(Da Bovise scorn. Takes the stat) Mrs. P.—Ie refused to xpert in the business, All others are Dr. B.—Am a physician of three weeks’ standing, | Said that had two far-tine [Exrnnr B takes: the stand sor the Pa‘ Consider toyselt (ally qualified. to tell, enbliy’ trom tn. eady, and did Lwan Expert B.—Am perfectly ve r P.—What else? a specialty ever s 3 Mrs. P.—Me then joined seven weeks ago. Mr. Persecuted is sane. Ther Luryer PV all night to the lode Hut one expert in insanity in the world. It is myself. Dr, B.—Because he's crazy. ced. Every other expert is a I Layer P.Alow could you tel? au upon the Republican ticket for Al- xecer C testifies next.) | Dr. B-Ue's yot too much paresis—it is all over | Herman in the First Ward, Expert C.~-Mave devoted all of my life with the ex It is liable to Ureak forth a any tim Lawyer P.—Avy other sign of lunacy? ; eption of fifty-one years to th | 7 P—Avy other symptom of a diseased | Vrs. P—Plenty. I told him one day that dear | cases. Am fifty-two years | was coming to see us for several weeks, 1 ersane por in few into a towering rage, and said that he guessed Experts A or B under oath, | ' hot, that if the old fagot dared to pat her wrinkled | Layer I. we will put the innocent He could not Keep his feet still, and he wore | oWBtenance inside of the house he would ¢ acy upon the stand. We asealskin overcoat, Also told me that if he had a | Met will prove him to im of a most scandalous, double-headed cent he could beat any man in the | _ aver P.—Then you went to Dra. Porcine and | devitish— | world mat or drinks. Bovine and had him sent to the agylam ? Jule McG. (ina Davie? se steps down. Dk. NE és sicorn.) airs, P.— Ven Lauryer P.—Well Lawyer P-—Mow much did it cost ? Judge McG. —Cut i cemary surgeon. Therefore Lbold | ps, 2.—Ten dollars apiece. You sce they bad to | (Lawvin PLatstirr cessntes. Ma. Pensroctew a pout | npetent to Judge of a man’s ration- | make a personal examiaatio that if upon the stand.) of the opinion that Mr. Persecuted 18 do- | 194 only brousht along a lock of his halr or his picture | lr. Peraccuted.—Alo't crazy. Am (hic) full: Went |, smmsate for them to judge of his sanity by, I might bave saved | out recesh, got four (hic) brandies an’a bottle of | Lawyer P.—Upon what grounds do you base your money | Everybody (hic) crazy " me. I'm Totally | Laicyer P.—Now, Mrs. P. you say that if | in'cent crazyness—foul (hic) pl nybody in | Dr. P.—{ made 8 persons! examination, the old scarecrow (meaning Mr. P.) was out of the way, | court-roomsh. (Retires to Lanayer:P.— Atal you:duscavered tasanlty 7 that you could catch on to his money, go to Europe, | court-room Dr. Pa—1 dit and have . Lay did ever you hear | Lawyer P.—State them. Mrs I maybe I did. W—who | such lucidity of ideas, such clearness of expression Dr. P.— First, he had a Puck in his pocket. |» sive ? and yet they call that man mad! Heavens, can Second, he wore a wateh-chain outside of his coat. |” pareyer P.—That will do. You may retire sun shine upon such in Third, he told me tha fifteen thousand dollars | pareyer D.—Judze, will you allow a poor, defenseless | Juidge Moti. (scratches his head) —Shure, Lam more he would start a comic p Fourth, he kept con- | woman, broken-spirited, bowed down with grief, te mixed up than I wur prayvious, I will— sta twitching about s that he had for the | tultied that way? These are not the days of the Rot Lay Disel him first time that day put on his winter flan €X- | ber Barons of the Rhine, of the — Larryer D.—Sens bimn back ? cus was but a subterfaze. Tconld easily see that be | Judge McG. (confulentially).—Arrab, Tommy, come | Mr. P was suffering from dementia of the thoraz, off. None av yez siven furlong spaches. 'Tis mesilf ‘0, no, I will raylase him upon bis . [Da. Porctye stepsdown. Lawyer Devepast mar- | who is ina hurry to-day. Projuce the rist av yez wit- | own rayeo: nce and appoint a REFEREE. shals forth Mrs. Perskceten.) neasea, [Corr comicbooks.com rer ys SURREAL US Be —