Life — July 24, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- Li AT S°ISSORS AT NvLLy MonTaGUE WILLIAMS, the famous London lawyer, tells in his “ Reminiscences,” a curious anecdote of a gentleman who, going to sleep in a railway carriage in a compartment having but one other occu- pant, woke and missed his watch, Instantly he accused his fellow-trav- eler of stealing it. The other indignantly denied the cha but was arrested. When the case came up in Bow Street the prosecutor, greatly confused, stated he had made a lamentable mistake, having discovered since the arrest that he had left his watch at home that morning by in- advertence. Nothing remained but to tender his sincerest apologies to the innocent man in the dock. Sir James Ingram, who was presiding in the court, hereupon ob- served: ‘It is a most remarkable occurrence. To show, however, how fiable we all are to make these mistakes, [ may mention, as an extraordinary coincidence, that | myself have only this morning been guilty of precisely the same oversight as the one in question. “I was under the impression when [ left my home in Remington that I put my watch (which, | may mention, is an exceedingly valuable one) in my pockets but on arriving at this court 1 found that | must have left it at ome by mistake.” When the judge returned home that night, one of his daughters met him and exclaimed : w= Papa, dear, I suppose you got your watch all right 2” FE: 4l “Well, my dear,” replied the magistrate, “as a matter of fact, 1 went out this morning without it."” “Yes, | know, papa,” his daughter replied, “but I gave it to the man from Bow Street who called for it.” Of course the man from Bow Street" was a shrewd thief who had been in court that morning, had heard Sir James tell the story of his **ex- traordinary coincidence,” and, no doubt stimulated by the remark about the great value of the watch, had taken this simple method to obtain posses- sion of it. 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