Life — July 7, 1892 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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-LI Isa Philadelphia court-room, during the trial of an important suit involving certain rodises, Benjamin Brewster, afterward Attorney-General of the United States, was faathe chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Company. fez. 00 account of a terrible disfigurement of his face teas a giant, and, ia deportment, a Chesterfield. phere misfortune, but never referred to it. Brewster was a frightfully ugly from burns; but, intellectually, He was extremely sensitive concern: The trial was a bitterly contested and Brewster, at every point, got so much the best of the opposing counsel that by Iiriine the arguments commenced, his leading adversary was in a white heat. In de- fssscing the railroad company, this lawyer, with voice tremulous with anger, exclaimed : “This grasping corporation is as dark, devious, and scarified in its methods as is the ixzof its chif attorney and henchman, Benjamin Brewster !" This violeat outburst of ragrand cruel invective was followed by a breathless stillness in the crowded court-room itz was painful. Hundreds of pitying eyes were riveted on the poor, scarred face of Besster, who slowly arose and spoke something like this to the court : “Your honor, ia all my career asa I did lever before feel called upon to explai jrildo so now. Lcster, jast bezinning to todd yer, the cause of my physical misfortune; but I When a bor while playing around an open fire, one day, with a little , She fell into the roaring flames, have never dealt in personalities; nor i rushed to her rescue, FREY: pulled her out before she was seriously hurt, and fell into the fire myself, When they took me out of the coals my face was as black as that man’s heart.” ‘The last sentence had an electrical effect, and the applause that greeted it was superb; but, in an instant, turned to the most contemptuous hisses directed at the lawyer who had so cruelly insulted him.—S¢. 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